Gordon Winrod
Male, Person
1926 –
Who is Gordon Winrod?
Gordon Winrod, son of Gerald B. Winrod, is a Christian Identity minister who is serving 30 years prison term for abducting six of his grandchildren in 1994 and 1995. Winrod was also ordered to pay up $26 million, after two of his grandchildren brought suit against him.
Winrod attended Lutheran Christian Day School, grades 1 through 8, finished high school at Hesston College, Hesston, Kansas, and attended St. John's Lutheran College in Winfield, Kansas.
Winrod served in the U.S. Maritime Service and the U.S. Navy from January 1945 until August 1948. Winrod married Genevieve Ann Dicke in Topeka, Kansas in 1948. They have eleven children.
Winrod graduated from Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1955; and he served as pastor of Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod congregations in San Antonio, Texas, and in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Winrod began publishing The Winrod Letter in April, 1960.
He moved to Gainesville, Missouri in 1965 and established Our Savior's Independent Christian congregation.
The Anti-Defamation League says that Winrod is an anti-Jewish propagandist. Winrod openly attacks Jews and Judaism in his writings. Winrod describes Jews as child-molesting perverts who hate God, practice the religion of Satan, run a "Secret Jewish World Government of anti-Christ", and says that the Jews have butchered, burned and bled Christians down through the centuries.
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