Former Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp has shared his disappoint concerning the attacks on places of religion promoting the Value Them Both amendment, which if passed would give state government the ability to regulate abortions.

Huelskamp weighed in after a sign promoting the amendment placed outside St. Teresa's Catholic Church in Hutchinson was broken into pieces in late June.

“These coordinated attacks by the abortion industry on our Catholic priests and churches are simply un-American and anti-Catholic. They should have no place in Kansas,” Huelskamp said. “As a Catholic myself, I demand the abortion industry immediately apologize for this attempt to intimidate Catholics here in Kansas.”

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At the June 26 service at St. Teresa's Catholic Church in Hutchinson, Father Aaron Spexarth - in the wake of the vandalism - gave a powerful pro-life homily and placed the church’s vandalized four-by-eight-foot sign at the foot of the cross. 

Church members report protesters have been gathering outside of the church and were present again on July 3, trying to disrupt Mass and intimidate parishioners.

St. Teresa's Catholic Church is a historic parish in Kansas. The community first established a parish in 1872. The current church building was dedicated in 1911.

Huelskamp is a former congressman who represented Kansas’ 1st Congressional District from 2011 to 2017. Huelskamp is a native Kansan who was born in Fowler. He has long been an outspoken advocate for the pro-life movement. In remarks to Congress in his first year of service, Huelskamp elaborated on his support for the pro-life movement. 

“One of the greatest greatest tragedies in the history of our nation has been the direct death and the direct murder of more than 50 million Americans since 1973,” Huelskamp said before Congress in a Special Order for the March for Life in 2011.

“And far too often too many women, too many families turned to abortion as the only option when they discover their unexpectedly pregnant situations exist that make the thought of being responsible perhaps for another life overwhelming to say the least. But abortion is not the only option available to these women and to their families. My wife and I have had the joy and privilege of adopting four children.”