Leftist pastor calls Minnesota church invasion divine judgment on 'MAGA evangelicals' amid DOJ probe

While national officials measurement imaginable civilian rights violations implicit the penetration of a Minnesota religion work connected Sunday, leftist Christian leaders are cheering the anti-ICE protesters, casting the disruption of worship arsenic a justified enactment of judgment.

A mob of anti-ICE agitators stormed Cities Church successful St. Paul, Minnesota, arsenic the work began, with protesters claiming a pastor wrong was affiliated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Video showed agitators chanting "Justice for Renee Good" wrong the chapel, arsenic anti-ICE demonstrations flooded the Twin Cities.

Church officials wrote successful a connection Tuesday "agitators jarringly disrupted" their worship gathering, accosting members of the congregation, frightening children and "creat[ing] a country marked by intimidation and threat."

Anti-ICE protesters wrong the Cities Church successful Minneapolis.  (Facebook/DawokeFarmer2)

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"Such behaviour is shameful, unlawful, and volition not beryllium tolerated," the religion wrote. "Invading a religion work to disrupt the worship of Jesus—or immoderate different enactment of worship—is protected by neither the Christian Scriptures nor the laws of this nation. … Church buildings are meant to beryllium places of bid and solace, wherever worshipers tin perceive and unrecorded retired this message. We truthful telephone connected local, state, and nationalist leaders to support this cardinal right. We are evaluating adjacent steps with our ineligible counsel."

Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention, said it was "absurd" that protesters would disrupt a Sunday greeting worship service.

"As protesters trespassed wrong the church, yelling successful the worship service, ex-CNN newsman Don Lemon stuck a mic successful [the church's pb pastor, Jonathan Parnell]'s look asking don’t they person a law close to nationalist protest," Ezell wrote successful an X post. "No, they don’t person a close to participate backstage spot & disrupt worship."

Anti-ICE protesters targeted the Cities Church successful Minneapolis connected Sunday, shouting down churchgoers successful the mediate of services.  (Facebook/DawokeFarmer2)

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"If elected officials won’t incorporate lawlessness, [the NAMB] volition supply extortion for our churches," Ezell added.

However, immoderate pastors, including Louisiana curate Rodney Kennedy, are applauding the protesters' ambush.

"MAGA churches are not being persecuted for righteousness but for not loving their neighbors. They are being persecuted by unexpected judgment, similar Jesus cleansing the temple," Kennedy wrote successful an sentiment nonfiction connected Baptist News Global. "… I deliberation God is utilizing unexpected prophets to justice Cities Church."

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Kennedy went connected to onslaught the religion itself, questioning "how a religion bearing the sanction of Jesus promotes the themes of resentment, nativism, nationalism, racism and militaris."

"MAGA evangelicals person been raising hellhole successful American politics. Their question is filled with economical angst, racism, spiritual bigotry, antifeminism and hostility toward immigrants, science, the media and democracy," helium wrote. "They person fixed commencement to a Christian nationalism that is neither Christian nor patriotic."

Kennedy added helium believes the religion objection was apt "only circular one."

An anti-ICE agitator berates Christians successful a Minnesota church.  (DawokeFarmer2/Facebook)

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"Instead of whining astir worship being violated, they should inquire what led protesters to instrumentality specified a drastic attack to communicate," helium wrote. "I commune MAGA evangelical churches everyplace volition observe gospel reasons for facing the persecution and outrage of the culture. Until then, the Sunday protestation successful Minneapolis was astir apt lone circular one."

Hours aft the religion protest, officials with the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division said they would analyse the disruption.

"The @CivilRights is investigating the imaginable violations of the national FACE Act by these radical desecrating a location of worship and interfering with Christian worshipers," Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon wrote successful a connection connected X. "Considering and investigating different related crimes arsenic well. @FBI activated too!"

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The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) Act, a national instrumentality passed successful 1994, makes it amerciable to usage force, threats oregon obstruction to interfere with radical successful places of worship.

Violations of the FACE Act tin trigger transgression penalties, including fines and imprisonment, oregon civilian penalties.