After news broke that a Kansas church was hosting a fundraiser for abortion giant Planned Parenthood, the church doubled down instead of rethinking the event.

The Wichita Eagle reports:

The fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri will benefit Wichita’s clinic, which provides reproductive care such as well-woman exams and contraceptives but doesn’t offer abortion services.

“Tons of awful stuff was being posted on our Facebook page,” Frankfurt said. “Our reach was up to about 18,000 people. I almost immediately turned off the ability to make posts on our page.”

People no longer could post to the page, but they still could comment on posts. Frankfurt eventually reported comments to Facebook, and since then, the number of posts she considered offensive have dwindled.

The event has been at St. James the past four years and had never been the subject of protest before, she said Tuesday.

“But last Monday when we came to work,” Frankfurt said, “the phones were just starting to ring off the hook. People were asking ‘Are you really hosting a chili event to celebrate 42 years of murder?’ ”

Some messages warned members of the church that they were going to hell.

Despite the paper’s reporting that the clinic “doesn’t offer abortion services,” its website very clearly indicates one of the “services offered” is “abortion referral.”

David Gittrich, state development director for Kansans for Life, tells the paper his group is “in the process of formulating some plans. We don’t think Jan. 22 is a day of celebration. We think it’s a day of mourning.”

“The Episcopal church says you can form your own opinion about reproductive justice and you can be against it or for it. There’s room for everybody in the Episcopal church to come together and worship God,” Frankfurt said. “We’ll see how this goes, but I don’t feel like changing my mind on supporting (Planned Parenthood).”