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Texas Church Ousts Member for Refusing to Repent Over Immigration Comments
Charisma ^ | 10/8/2025 | James Lasher

Posted on 10/13/2025 12:37:08 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

A Texas business owner says his life has been turned upside down after a social media post criticizing H-1B visas led to online harassment, business backlash and ultimately, church discipline.

As first reported by Sebastian Pestritto of The Blaze, Daniel Keene of North Texas posted a short video on X showing an Indian block party that filled an entire suburban street, adding, “We have to cancel the H-1Bs. I want my kids to grow up in America. Not India.”

The post went viral, and “all hell broke loose,” The Blaze reported.

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But Keene said the most painful blow came from his church.

Leaders of The Trails Church called Keene to confront him about his immigration stance, telling him to repent and labeling his post “uncharitable.” Keene said he deleted the post soon after it went viral but refused to disavow his position.

He told The Blaze that he and his pregnant wife were summoned to a meeting with “all the elders and staff who could be there.” Keene recalled, “They just hammered me for … hours.”

According to Keene, the elders reviewed three years of his X posts, highlighting two they found “concerning.” When he asked for clarification on what sin he was being accused of, he said the answers shifted. “On one hand, they are saying that the issue is not the position itself; it’s how I expressed it,” he said. “But then we’ve had three hours of phone calls, and they’re just hammering me on the position itself.”

When Keene asked the elders to put his alleged offenses in writing, they refused. He offered to post clarifying messages on X or speak with anyone offended, but said the church leadership demanded an apology and for him to renounce his position on Indian immigration.

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KEYWORDS: h1b; india; texas
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1 posted on 10/13/2025 12:37:08 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Indians worship demons , no Christian should want them around.


2 posted on 10/13/2025 12:38:43 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

Blue demons.


3 posted on 10/13/2025 12:39:24 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Time to shake dust and find another church.


4 posted on 10/13/2025 12:39:39 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: marcusmaximus

I’m a great Sinner. I wouldn’t be a member of any church that would have me./s


5 posted on 10/13/2025 12:42:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: marcusmaximus

I heard they have a nice statue of a monkey demon up in Texas some where . That’s what we want in America because we don’t have enough problems


6 posted on 10/13/2025 12:43:00 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Lol!


7 posted on 10/13/2025 12:43:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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8 posted on 10/13/2025 12:43:23 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: escapefromboston

A great many Indians are Christians.


9 posted on 10/13/2025 12:46:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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According to google it’s about 2.5% of the population.


10 posted on 10/13/2025 12:50:14 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: escapefromboston

Have you ever heard of Thomas the Apostle? He went to south India, and the Christians he led the Marthomites are still there today. India has had Christianity since 54 AD.

As of 2025, the estimated Christian population in India is approximately 33.6 million, representing about 2.3% of the country’s total population of around 1.46 billion.

So definitely not “all Indians”.

India is a continent with myriad nations.


11 posted on 10/13/2025 12:51:32 PM PDT by Cronos
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If you can get a high tech job, which is very difficult now (if you are an American citizen). It is highly likely your boss will be a citizen of a country half the world away, who has less experience than you do. Is this what our parents and grandparents worked so hard for? Is this what we seek to hand down to our kids and grandkids?


12 posted on 10/13/2025 12:51:58 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: escapefromboston

That’s 33.6 million people


13 posted on 10/13/2025 12:52:23 PM PDT by Cronos
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They. probably aren’t the ones worshipping demons.


14 posted on 10/13/2025 12:53:33 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: jroehl

Their arrogance is the worst part.


15 posted on 10/13/2025 12:54:47 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: kiryandil; marcusmaximus

So when will we talk about the war in Ukraine again?


16 posted on 10/13/2025 12:56:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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According to Wiki, that represents about 28 million people - 4 times as many as the Jews in the US.

But I guess 28 million is a negligible number...


17 posted on 10/13/2025 12:57:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: marcusmaximus

Funny how it seems everybody is allowed to speak their mind except gainfully employed White people that are
productive contributors to our society.

For some reason it seems we are all supposed to STHU.


18 posted on 10/13/2025 12:58:59 PM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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Looks like the Ukraine troll is dead in the water. 😉


19 posted on 10/13/2025 12:59:20 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

Hammered for 3 hours? Who would put up with that?


20 posted on 10/13/2025 12:59:24 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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