Man avoids jail after trashing church over same-sex marriage vote
Patrick James smashed the stained glass windows of his own church over a vote on same-sex marriage. (Facebook/ Mills Hill Baptist Church) Thug Patrick James has been handed a suspended sentence after trashing his own church in “mean and hateful” over a vote on same-sex marriage. In May 2019, James, 58, caused almost £15,000 worth of damage to Mills Hill Baptist Church in Middleton, Greater Manchester. The church had been planning to vote on whether it should perform same-sex marriages and James, a court previously heard, “took great exception to that”, insisting it “would not be Go...