Donald Trump supporter calls pastor 'sick' for supporting Muslims' Ramadan

A Trump supporter and GOP convention delegate called a pastor "sick" for posting a church sign that wished Muslim neighbors a blessed Ramadan.

The Rev. Christopher Rodkey of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Dallastown, Pa. displayed on June 9 a church sign that read, "Wishing a blessed Ramadan to our Muslim neighbors."

The pastor's message that aimed for better inter-faith relations in a church that considers itself progressive pushed Matthew Jansen, a school board member of Spring Grove Area and York County Republican delegate, to think it's timely that both Rodkey and the church "deserve some pushback."

Jansen articulated his dissenting opinion a couple of days later through an angry phone call that went through Rodkey's mobile phone voice mail.

"Are you sick? Is there something wrong with you?" Jansen asked, without identifying himself, as quoted by York Dispatch.

Jansen said he was "completely shocked" by the message on the church sign and referred to the Muslims as "people who subscribe to a faith that is not only godless but pagan."

"It is unbelievable that you would wish them a blessed Ramadan," he said.

By 1 p.m. that day, Jansen posted a photo of the church sign on Twitter as he had told the pastor, warning "so everyone can see this."

"I don't see Islam — or the Muslim belief — I don't see it as legit," Jansen told the Associated Press.

He thinks rather than a religion, Islam is only a way to espouse the restrictive Sharia law. As a Protestant, he believes he's not being discriminatory at all.

On the other hand, Rodkey called Jansen unfit for office after discovering the identity of the caller. He expressed his disbelief that an elected official could think the way Jansen does and worried that Jansen is misplaced in a position that's supposed to deal with diverse people.

"If this was my school district, I would be loudly demanding a resignation," Rodkey told York Dispatch.

Former president of the defunct York Interfaith Alliance, Tom Murray, believes what Jansen is doing is divisive.

"He listens to Trump. He wants to support Trump. And what he's doing is dividing the country," he said.