For months, there have been virtually no developments in United’s attempts to build a soccer-specific stadium at Poplar Point, east of the Anacostia River.

That changed yesterday, when Steve Goff’s indispensible Soccer Insider ran a post announcing a potential roadblock to stadium development. Given the abundance of Goff’s own reporting on the blog, we were surprised when he went and posted a press release in its entirety. The “press release” was titled in forboding capital letters.

MINISTERS ACROSS THE CITY EXPRESS OPPOSITION TO NEW SOCCER STADIUM
DC UNITED LIED TO CHURCH AN YOUTH

Lying to the church an youth sounds pretty bad, but things get considerably worse for United brass and stadium proponents. The DC Black Church Initiative and its President, Rev. Anthony Evans, come out swinging, accusing United of the following offenses: hating black people (especially little kids), being profiteering gentrifiers, and killing kittens en masse. We only made up one of those.