LATROBE, Pennsylvania, January 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A former Pennsylvania state representative and U.S. Congressional candidate has resigned his teaching position at St. Vincent College following his participation in the January 6 March to Save America Rally in Washington, DC.
Pro-life Republican Rep. Rick Saccone, 62, who served for eight years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2011-2019) uploaded a post on Facebook while attending the rally which triggered a hostile social media response, including a “change.org” petition demanding his termination, TribLive reports.
The post, which was later removed, said “We are storming the capitol. Our vanguard has broken through the barricades. We will save this nation. Are u with me?”
Saccone, who fell short in a 2018 U.S. congressional race by a 0.3% margin, said he certainly didn’t intend the comment to be taken literally. In fact, he told LifeSiteNews he was unaware that anyone actually entered the building by the time he and his wife had left the grounds.
He lamented the disingenuousness of his political adversaries putting the worst interpretation on his words. “You can’t use hyperbole, you can’t use figures of speech, you can’t use metaphor because it’ll be twisted into something negative,” he said.
Later, when seeing news reports of a forced entry
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