The KKK signs spray-painted by vandals on a Gorham church’s property sometime during last weekend are gone now, but the pastor is outraged.

The Rev. David Butler, of the First Parish Church in Gorham, denounced the graffiti that was painted in several places on a shed in the church parking lot on Church Street.

“KKK is a symbol of hatred, racial and religious bigotry, and murderous violence,” Butler said in a prepared statement Monday. “We have a responsibility to condemn and deplore the appearance of that symbol and everything that it stands for wherever and whenever it appears.”

The letters had been blotted out with paint Monday afternoon.

On Sunday, gift cards worth $900 to help needy Gorham families buy turkeys for Thanksgiving were stolen from the church.

“It hasn’t been a good day at the church,” the Rev. Larry Kalp, associate pastor, said with dismay as he viewed the shed Monday.