LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A Lutheran pastor has resigned in La Crosse days after an email threatening rape and laced with expletives was sent from his home account to a Milwaukee blogger. Liberal Milwaukee activist and blogger Claire Van Fossen posted the email on social media. Van Fossen says the threat was one of many emails she received after criticizing police on her independent blog. The Rev. David Wendt of First Evangelical Lutheran Church in La Crosse resigned Tuesday. A synod spokesman, Lee Hitter, says Wendt acknowledged the email address from which the message was sent is his, but denied sending the threat. Hitter says Wendt asked the local police department’s cybercrimes unit to investigate.
