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A church congregant, who for now remains a lawyer, is facing a long list of criminal counts for allegedly pulling a fake grenade out of his pocket and threatening pro-life activists with it. A report at the Myrtle Beach, S.C., Sun News explained it is Richard Meredith Lovelace Jr. who is facing four counts of waving a hollowed-out hand grenade in front of pro-life protesters at St Anne’s Episcopal Church. The stunt was caught on Instagram. View this post on Instagram After the threats, he shortly was handcuffed and arrested by police in Conway, and a day later he was released from the J. Reuben Long Detention Center on $15,000 bail. The report said protesters with the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust organization had responded to the church because it calls itself an “inclusive and affirming” church, in support of abortion and various alternative sexual lifestyle ideologies. “According to accounts from the Conway Police Department incident report, Lovelace exited the church and approached the protesters with his hands in his pockets before pulling out the grenade,” the report said. “I thought Mr. Lovelace was coming up to me to have a conversation, and when he came up, he pulled out of his pocket this hand grenade, and he said, ‘I have a gift for you protesters,'” said Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust South Carolina team lead Jessica Newell. “And I was just so confused, and everybody was scared, and so we just called the police immediately to get that investigated.” Lovelace is on video telling activists that the grenade is “for y’all.” “The arrestee had the grenade held up in the air and was seen [waving] it around,” police reported. “The arrestee immediately attempted to get rid of the grenade after presenting it to the protestors by going back inside of the church prior to the officers’ arrival and handing it to another person.” His law office said his work was in banking law, business law, elder law, estates and real estate. Newell confirmed, “After what happened, it did kind of freak everybody out, so we are continuing to reconvene with the team and seeing what the best next course of action would be, but we are asking the church to cut ties with Women and Gender Studies, and we told them that that’s what it will take for us to stop protesting.” At Christian Newswire was a report the protest, on Sunday, was because members of the church were linked to the Palmetto State Abortion Fund via The Women and Gender Studies Program at Coastal Carolina University.
