Gordon Winrod

Gordon Winrod (born December 30, 1926) is a Christian Identity minister who was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for abducting six of his grandchildren in 1994 and 1995.[1][2] Winrod was also ordered to pay up to $26 million after two of his grandchildren brought suit against him.[3]

Biography

Winrod was born on December 30, 1926, to Gerald Burton Winrod. He attended a Lutheran day school (grades 1 through 8), finished high school at Hesston High School in Hesston, Kansas, and attended St. John's College in Winfield, Kansas.

Winrod served in the U.S. Maritime Service and the U.S. Navy from January 1945 until August 1948. He married Genevieve Ann Dicke in Topeka, Kansas, in 1948. They have eleven children.

Winrod graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois, in 1955. He then served as pastor of Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) congregations in San Antonio, Texas, and in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Winrod began publishing The Winrod Letter in April, 1960. Soon thereafter the LCMS expelled him from its ministerial roster.

He moved to Gainesville, Missouri, in 1965 and established Our Savior's Independent Christian congregation.

Legacy

The Anti-Defamation League says that Winrod is an anti-Jewish propagandist. Winrod openly attacks Jews and Judaism in his writings. Winrod describes Jews as child-molesting perverts who hate God, practice the religion of Satan, run a "Secret Jewish World Government of anti-Christ", and says that the Jews have butchered, burned, and bled Christians (drinking warm Christian blood) down through the centuries.[4]

References
  1. "Appeals court upholds conviction for anti-Semitic preacher". Associated Press. January 18, 2002.
  2. "Judge sentences supremacist pastor in abduction of grandchildren". Associated Press. March 19, 2001.
  3. "Minister to Pay $26M for Abduction". Associated Press. May 4, 2002.
  4. "The Winrod Legacy of Hate". Anti-Defamation League. 2000. Archived from the original on 2002-09-11. Retrieved 2007-12-26.
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