A Texas reverend has rebuked his girlfriend for making hateful comments about 27 little girls and their counselors who died in floodwaters at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp.
Reverend Colin Bossen, a senior minister at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, issued a statement disavowing his girlfriend, Sadé Perkins, who made an offensive TikTok video about the disaster.
In a statement obtained by DailyMail.com, reverend Bossen chastised Perkins and reassured church congregants he disagreed with her.
“My partner Sadé Perkins has made comments on social media regarding the horrific flooding that devastated Camp Mystic,” he wrote. “I want to be clear that I disavow her comments.”
Bossen said he was “deeply sorry for the harm” caused by Perkins’ comments.
He added: “I believe strongly that all people have inherent worthiness and dignity. Her comments were not in the spirit of the Unitarian Universalist values centered around love that my congregation and I share.”
Perkins got her wish to go viral, but she hurt many Texas residents who are already devastated.
Over 100 people are confirmed dead in Texas and many more are missing after heavy rains caused catastrophic flash flooding in the early hours of July 4.
27 girls and their counselors at Camp Mystic near the Guadalupe River were swept away when floodwaters surged in less than an hour.
The victims went to bed in Camp Mystic on July 3, despite flood warnings from the National Weather Service.
In her Tiktok video, Perkins condemned the “whites only conservative Christian camp” and the camp counselors, whom she claimed were MAGA loyalists.
She noted that the camp was a “whites only enclave” in East Texas. She criticized people for helping to find the victims and for donating money to a fund for the victims.
Perkins said MAGA supporters “would be saying [the children] deserve it and that it’s God’s will” if the children who died were Latino or LGBTQ+.
One X user posted photos of Black girls who attended the same camp.
She neglected to do any research on camp mystic. pic.twitter.com/1QnGE1AbdL
— Canadian Republican ?? ?? (@Cad_Republican) July 7, 2025
Houston Mayor John Whitmire said he will take the necessary steps to remove Perkins from the City’s Food Insecurity Board.
“The comments shared on social media are deeply inappropriate and have no place in decent society, especially as families grieve the confirmed deaths and the ongoing search for the missing,” Whitmire said.
Let’s make this ratchet racist damsons . Meet Sade Perkins, Freedmen's Town Farmers Market mgr, said “little white girls” at Camp Mystic deserved the TX floods. Vile racism! Married to Rev. Colin Bossen, she must face consequences. pic.twitter.com/fSAd1d8b8e
— Birdie IRENE (@BirdiesRants) July 7, 2025
