OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Father Bill McKenzie says while he's not angry, he does have questions. "You wonder what it is that would bring someone to this point," he said.
Investigators say the brazen act committed in broad daylight is definitely a hate crime. "It's the wording that they used in the graffiti toward the church and a group. They made a reference to the gays in the church," said A. R. Massengill with Oak Ridge police.
Father McKenzie says the most hurtful act was done to holy water inside the sanctuary. "Somebody had urinated into that," said McKenzie.
Said Massengill, "it's a horrible case of vandalism when it's directed toward a church."
Instead of jail for those responsible, Father McKenzie offers prayer. "I want them to be called beyond this. I don't want them to carry this their whole life."
