In Charlottesville, more than 400 theologians, ethicists and religion scholars have asked the University of Virginia to drop charges against a theology student who was arrested for refusing to leave an office in the school’s law library where white supremacist Jason Kessler was doing research. Kessler organized last year’s deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville. The student, Eric Martin, defended his act of nonviolent civil disobedience. He said, “It was done with a rosary in my pocket. This is what it is for me to be a Christian, to resist things that are evil. White supremacy is evil.” Martin is a graduate student at Fordham University, where he is writing his dissertation on Father Daniel Berrigan.
Theology Student Studying Daniel Berrigan’s Life Arrested for Protesting White Supremacist in Charlottesville
HeadlineMay 31, 2018