Posted on 04/21/2017 4:06:10 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A group of leftist activists wearing pink pussy hats disrupted a Christian opening prayer at Rep. Jack Bergman’s (R-MI) Thursday evening town hall in Gaylord, Michigan, shouting, “Separation of church and state!” as other constituents stood with their heads bowed in respect.
Dr. Derek Hagland, the assistant pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Michigan’s First District, had just taken the stage to recite an invocation when activists began chanting, “Separation of church and state!” to disrupt him:
“This guy was giving invocation,” Rep. Bergman’s communication director Farahn Morgan told Breitbart News. “He was not necessarily party affiliated in any way. That kind of reaction to him? It was the most aggressive that the crowd got during the entire event which was, quite honestly, shocking.”
She added that it was surprising that these activists refused “to engage in dialogue after months of demanding there be a dialogue. The display was upsetting for the constituents who attended and really wanted to participate in a dialogue and hear what the congressman thinks and share their thoughts with him in a constructive way. The activists’ behavior flew in the face of any constructive dialogue.” She described the incident as “a coordinated fiasco.”
Video footage of the event, provided to Breitbart News by an attendee, showed some Republicans and community leaders standing with their heads bowed during the prayer, despite the disruptive chants.
Some of the activists wore pink pussy hats, the same ones donned as a symbol of “resistance” during anti-President Donald Trump protests across the nation following his inauguration:
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“as other constituents stood with their heads bowed in respect.”
I see the problem.
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Leftoids doing what they always do . . .
Combined PING! and DANG!
Yup.
The spokesperson was “surprised they wouldn’t engage in dialogue”??? Don’t be naive. LIBS are lunatics. All they want to do is disrupt and desttoy. They need thrown out and crushed. Wake up. LIBS are a malignancy on civil society. No quarter to these vermin.
“Separation of church and state!”
More ‘progressive’ wordplay to achieve their propaganda victory. It has become so tiresome for me.
The founders envisioned separations between church FROM state.
Liberty and justice for all cannot possibly be achieved by man. The Founders knew that man is utterly incapable of governing his fellow man justly, without adhering to God’s law. They all understood that the foundations for governmental justice and liberty must stem from the ultimate source of all justice and liberties, id est, Almighty God. A quote from James Madison expressed their beliefs succinctly, “Any country not ruled by the Ten Commandments will be ruled by tyrants.”
June 25, 1962 Engle v. Vitale – The Supreme Court of The United States; led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, officially decided, “Prayer in school breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State.” How I wish we still had patriotic men like James Madison in our Nation’s Capital to bitchslap imbeciles like Justice Warren when necessary! Church and State were to coexist in a nation ruled by Judeo-Christian principles. The erroneous phrasing of ‘separation between Church and State’ altogether subverts the Founders declared purpose - Church was to be separated and exempted from governmental authority, as the Founders simply wanted to prohibit the government from imposing any religion on its citizens. They clearly intended a separation between Church from State, and not strictly Church and State.
The Founders envisioned a free republic, and they understood the arbitrary nature and travesty of the King establishing himself by law as de facto caliph in England.
The Anglican Church was founded as a State Institution and as such, all subordinates of the King in all his territories were then members of the Church of England, not by choice; but by royal ordinance.
Being visionaries, the Founders recognized the need to guarantee our freedom to worship our Creator independently, and they were also men who publicly invoked God’s help every time they assembled. They did not foresee, nor would they have allowed, the formation of a society that might possibly enact laws forbidding Bibles and prayer.
The left’s church and religion is the STATE.
Their 3 gods...gubbermint, genitalia and globull warming.
I wonder if some of those people know Jerry Garcia is dead...
EEEWW! Still wearing the same hats since inauguration? sweaty gross!
Some of the activists wore pink pussy hats, the same ones donned as a symbol of “resistance” during anti-President Donald Trump protests across the nation following his inauguration:
These guys are coming to the wrong location.
The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families.
The Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is one of the officers of the United States House of Representatives and are elected as individuals and not as representatives of any religious community, body, or organization. As of 2011, all House Chaplains have been Christian but can be members of any religion or faith group. Guest Chaplains, recommended by congressional members to deliver the session’s opening prayer in place of the House Chaplain, have represented many different religious groups.
If they really wanted to make an impact, go to congress where all fifty states and our territories are represented by a chaplain. But I guess that would include the liberals, too. And even the lib activists apparently are not stupid enough to defecate where they eat.
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These folks really should read the Constitution that they reference. The establishment clause they speak of prevents the state from establishing an official state religion like Henry the Eighth did when he broke with the Catholic church and established the Church of England. And this act is what the founders of the Constitution were concerned with. But, in the same sentence they went on to say that neither could the Constitution be used to prevent the free practice of religion. So to have a prayer to open a meeting does not establish a state sponsored religion but it does allow the free practice of same. If you don’t like it, don’t pray.
Good post. The 1st amend(religion) was to keep Christianity 'regular', like trade in the commerce clause. To prevent the various factions of Christianity from warring with each other. Joesph Story's commentaries on the Constitution. The 1st Amendment(religion):
Indeed, in a republic, there would seem to be a peculiar propriety in viewing the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for its support and permanence, if it be, what it has ever been deemed by its truest friends to be, the religion of liberty
“57 flavors of gender fluid”
lolol
Separation of Liberalism and State!
I have an acquaintance whom I follow on Facebook and he has taken quite a turn to the left over the past year or so. He litters his page with political stuff, most of which I ignore because he really is a nice guy who seems to have gone soft in the head.
He wouldn’t shout down a pastor giving an invocation, but he would probably agree that having the pastor violates separation of church and state. He often opines that science and reason, not any kind of religious principle, should guide our public life and debate. But then he opened a discussion in which he said he couldn’t understand how Christians could vote for Trump, whom he considers the anti-Christ candidate. (Not the Anti-Christ, but one who is against Christ and Christian morality.) And he’ll take a Christian politician such as Mike Pence to task for doing something that he considers not in line with “What Would Jesus Do?”
I’ve seen a lot of this on the social media. Makes a helluva lot of sense, doesn’t it?
The lunatic left has no interest in separation of church and state but rather the elimination of the church in the state. And this is not the first town hall meeting where they have interrupted both the prayer and the pledge of allegiance. These nazi storm troopers are the same people we see hiding their faces on the streets as they destroy free speech.
I’m fine with the separation of church and state...provided this also applies to Islam. I’m tired of Islam being taught in public schools, for instance.
Where are the people on the left, protesting against THAT??
They fear getting raped or having their heads chopped off.
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