Calling himself “The Lion,” he’s been active in anti-2SLGBTQ+ and anti-Muslim spaces for years. Now he’s on tour in the US. Here’s what the media needs to know. Artur Pawlowski, a hate preacher based out of Calgary, Alberta, runs the Cave of Adullam, also known as Street Church, a far-right, anti-2SLGBTQ+ religious space. Since 2005, Pawlowski has become known for holding loud outdoor events in which he feeds the houseless population while proselytizing his specific, and bigoted, brand of religion. In more recent years, he, along with his brother Dawid Pawlowski, have become fixtures in the far-right protest movement. His hate is primarily directed at the 2SLGBTQ+ community, by holding protests, disrupting Pride events, and supporting legal battles of fellow hatemongers. In 2013, he blamed flooding in Alberta on the 2SLGBTQ+ community: “(God) is weeping for the perversions of homosexuality which includes the walking out the pride of their abominations in the streets of our cities.” Pawlowski also targets the Muslim community. Another 2013 post authored by Pawlowski states, “those Muslims and their message is un-Canadian…if we will not stand up for our values today, their [sic] will be no police and courts that will protect our rights tomorrow. It will be Sharia law and if you will not to submit [sic] to that wicked evil dictatorship you are dead.”
via antihate: “GET OUT”: A TIMELINE OF HATE PREACHER ARTUR PAWLOWSKI’S ACTIVITIES ACROSS NORTH AMERICA