Mob Storms Minnesota Church, Shuts Down Worship Service
A raging mob stormed into Southern Baptist Church in St. Paul, Minnesota Sunday and shut down the worship service. Watch video below and click here to get my breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.
The mob was organized by Black Lives Matter of Minnesota and Black Lives Matter Twin Cities along with the Racial Justice Network. In other words, a mostly-black mob stormed a mostly-white church and terrorized worshippers.
Ex-CNN host Don Lemon was a part of the mob and filmed the entire attack inside the sanctuary at Cities Church. Protesters were under the assumption that someone either on staff or a member of the church worked for Immigration Customs Enforcement.
“This is unacceptable. It’s shameful. It’s shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship,” Lead Pastor Jonathan Parnell said.
Lemon lectured the pastor and said the mob had a constitutional right to shut down the worship service.
“This is what the First Amendment is about, the freedom to protest,” Lemon said. “I’m sure people here don’t like it, but protests are not comfortable.”
So, why aren’t the mobs storming mosques?
Clint Pressley, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, strongly condemned the church attack.
“Disrupting a church’s worship service to make a political point is disgraceful,” he said. “Targeting a Southern Baptist church in Minneapolis crosses a clear line, and I stand fully with the church and its members who simply came to worship Jesus in peace.”
The SBC president urged Christians to pray for the church and stand alongside their congregation.
“Public officials should investigate whether civil rights were violated and ensure the freedom to worship is protected,” Pressley said.
Kevin Ezell, the president of the North American Mission Board, said the church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
“These intimidating tactics are not only illegal but cowardly,” Ezell wrote on X. “No cause justifies traumatizing families as they worship and desecrating a sacred space.”
Ezell said if elected leaders will not contain lawlessness their agency would provide security for the church.
He also had stern words for the ex-CNN host and pointed out protesters “don’t have a right to enter private property and disrupt worship.”
I am filled with a righteous anger at this moment.
What happened in Minneapolis is clearly a violation of the FACE Act – legislation that protects places of worship. It can be used against anyone who uses force, threats or physical obstruction to interfere with religious freedom.
And that’s exactly what happened at Cities Church on Sunday. That mob violated the civil rights of those Christian worshippers.
The Justice Department and the FBI says they are investigating – but what is there to investigate? We have video evidence of the crime?
We expect nothing short of pre-dawn, guns-drawn raids on the homes of the perpetrators. We expect public perp walks. And that includes Don Lemon.
We are tired of endless investigations. We are tired of condemnations. It’s time for the Trump Administration to step up and put down the rebellion in Minneapolis.
And Christians in Minneapolis should also consider bringing not only their Bibles to church on Sunday but also their guns. There’s nothing in the Bible that prohibits God’s little lambs from owning a Glock.