Donald Spitz

Donald Spitz

Donald Spitz is a controversial Christian anti-abortion activist in the United States. He lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, and runs the website for the anti-abortion group Army of God.

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Beginnings

Donald Spitz was born in Norfolk, Virginia[citation needed]. In the early 1980s Spitz moved to New York City where he ran a street evangelism ministry on Times Square.

Spitz was ordained by Evangelist Leander Bolhoarst, with The International Gospel Crusade, a Christian healing ministry located in New York City.[citation needed]

Spitz later[when?] to Chesapeake Virginia where he formed Pro-Life Virginia. He operates the Army of God website. [1]

Controversy

Donald Spitz was friends with Paul Jennings Hill both before Hill killed Dr. John Britton and also afterwards, up to the time Hill was executed.[citation needed] Spitz was one of Hill's two spiritual advisers during the last week of his life. His fellow adviser, Reverend Flip Benham, called Spitz's counsel "terrible theology" and "heresy."[2] Spitz posted a "Defensive Action Statement" on his Army of God website arguing that Hill should be acquitted of murder as justifiable.[3]

After John Salvi III attacked two abortion clinics in Massachusetts, he drove to Norfolk VA where Spitz lived at the time. It was reported by the Boston Globe, at the time of his arrest in Norfolk, Salvi had Spitz's name and unlisted phone number in his possession.[4]

Spitz raised controversy in 2001 when he stated that he supported anthrax letters sent by Clayton Waagner to several abortion businesses.[5]

In response to the 1998 shooting death of Dr. Barnett Slepian, Spitz said: "What would I say to the family of Slepian? They live in a $500,000 house that was paid for with blood money - the blood of those babies that Barnett Slepian murdered... He knew what he was doing, he was murdering children. That's too bad if he was killed in front of his family..." [6]

Spitz has published prison writings of Paul Jennings Hill,[7] Eric Robert Rudolph,[8] Shelley Shannon,[9] Rev. Michael Bray,[10] Paul Ross Evans [11] and Clayton Waagner[12] on the Army of God website.[13] He has been sending Hill's writings to Scott Roeder at Roeder's request and Roeder has been forwarding them to Linda Wolfe. Both Spitz and Wolfe are friends with Shelley Shannon who shot George Tiller. Roeder admitted guilt and was convicted of killing Tiller on 1/29/10.[14]

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