Democrats did something miraculous on Sunday: They managed to prove they are even more despicable than we previously thought.
Several dozen agitators burst into Cities Church on Sunday morning and began chanting “ICE out,” reportedly under the impression that one of the church’s pastors, David Easterwood, is a member of the federal immigration enforcement agency.
The band of lunatic anti-ICE protesters, aided and abetted by disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon, were enraged that a pastor there might be affiliated with ICE.
Lemon, who is no longer affiliated with a news outlet, enthusiastically embedded with the group that barged into the house of God, shattering the peace and security of a Sunday service and exhibiting behavior befitting a psychiatric ward at Bellevue, observed Kirsten Fleming, a features columnist at the New York Post.
The demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network stormed into the Cities Church and called out resident pastor David Eastwood, whom they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
“This cannot be a house of God while harboring someone directing ICE agents to wreak havoc on our community. I am a reverend on top of being a lawyer and an activist, so I come here in the power of the almighty God,” one protester, Nekima Levy-Armstrong, told ousted CNN host Don Lemon during his livestream.
There’s been no confirmation of such a tie, but that doesn’t really matter to Democrats, because the attack wasn’t really about ICE or sympathy for illegal aliens.
“These are resistance protesters, they’re planning an operation we’re going to follow them on,” Lemon said on his livestream with delight. “I can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing, but it’s called Operation Pull-Up.”
“This is what the First Amendment was about, the freedom to protest. I’m sure people here don’t like it, but protests are not comfortable,” said Lemon, sounding like a proud alum of the Quality Learing Center reported Ms. Fleming.
In an interview with a podcaster Monday, Lemon railed against religious groups, saying they have an “entitlement [that] comes from a white supremacy.”
And there you have it.
As Ms. Fleming noted, Lemon wasn’t merely a narrator. He conducted contentious interviews with parishioners and the pastor, essentially trying to convince them of the gang’s righteousness and their collective guilt.
The church’s lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, called the protest “shameful.”
Lemon, advocating on behalf of the blasphemous invaders, and showing his complete ignorance of the Constitution and the rights it protects, replied “Listen, there’s a Constitution and a First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.”
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights tweeted, saying that Lemon was “on notice.”
The Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention called what happened “an unacceptable trauma,” saying the service was ”forced to end prematurely” as protesters shouted “insults and accusations at youth, children, and families.”
“No cause — political or otherwise — justifies the desecration of a sacred space or the intimidation and trauma inflicted on families gathered peacefully in the house of God,” Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, said in a statement reported by the Associated Press. “What occurred was not protest; it was lawless harassment.”
Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, called the protesters’ tactics unjustifiable.
“For Christians, the precedent of invading a congregation at worship should be unthinkable,” Mohler said in an interview. “I think the political left is crossing a threshold.”
We agree and urge Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and her team to move swiftly to hold those who participated in this outrage accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
Several dozen agitators burst into Cities Church on Sunday morning and began chanting “ICE out,” reportedly under the impression that one of the church’s pastors, David Easterwood, is a member of the federal immigration enforcement agency.
The band of lunatic anti-ICE protesters, aided and abetted by disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon, were enraged that a pastor there might be affiliated with ICE.
Lemon, who is no longer affiliated with a news outlet, enthusiastically embedded with the group that barged into the house of God, shattering the peace and security of a Sunday service and exhibiting behavior befitting a psychiatric ward at Bellevue, observed Kirsten Fleming, a features columnist at the New York Post.
The demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network stormed into the Cities Church and called out resident pastor David Eastwood, whom they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
“This cannot be a house of God while harboring someone directing ICE agents to wreak havoc on our community. I am a reverend on top of being a lawyer and an activist, so I come here in the power of the almighty God,” one protester, Nekima Levy-Armstrong, told ousted CNN host Don Lemon during his livestream.
There’s been no confirmation of such a tie, but that doesn’t really matter to Democrats, because the attack wasn’t really about ICE or sympathy for illegal aliens.
“These are resistance protesters, they’re planning an operation we’re going to follow them on,” Lemon said on his livestream with delight. “I can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing, but it’s called Operation Pull-Up.”
“This is what the First Amendment was about, the freedom to protest. I’m sure people here don’t like it, but protests are not comfortable,” said Lemon, sounding like a proud alum of the Quality Learing Center reported Ms. Fleming.
In an interview with a podcaster Monday, Lemon railed against religious groups, saying they have an “entitlement [that] comes from a white supremacy.”
And there you have it.
As Ms. Fleming noted, Lemon wasn’t merely a narrator. He conducted contentious interviews with parishioners and the pastor, essentially trying to convince them of the gang’s righteousness and their collective guilt.
The church’s lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, called the protest “shameful.”
Lemon, advocating on behalf of the blasphemous invaders, and showing his complete ignorance of the Constitution and the rights it protects, replied “Listen, there’s a Constitution and a First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.”
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights tweeted, saying that Lemon was “on notice.”
The Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention called what happened “an unacceptable trauma,” saying the service was ”forced to end prematurely” as protesters shouted “insults and accusations at youth, children, and families.”
“No cause — political or otherwise — justifies the desecration of a sacred space or the intimidation and trauma inflicted on families gathered peacefully in the house of God,” Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, said in a statement reported by the Associated Press. “What occurred was not protest; it was lawless harassment.”
Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, called the protesters’ tactics unjustifiable.
“For Christians, the precedent of invading a congregation at worship should be unthinkable,” Mohler said in an interview. “I think the political left is crossing a threshold.”
We agree and urge Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and her team to move swiftly to hold those who participated in this outrage accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
