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Chicago Mayor Launches Police Raid to Shut Down Black Church’s Sunday Services
Breitbart ^ | 24 May 2020

Posted on 05/24/2020 9:12:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

On Sunday, Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders.

Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church in the South Side’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Woodlawn is just south of Hyde Park, the area in which the Obamas lived for a short time before Barack became president.

Who’s growing tired of this lunacy?https://t.co/LXfabUIdBB

— Prov356🇺🇸 (@cujo_14) May 24, 2020

The pastor of the mostly black congregation, Courtney Lewis, reportedly shut and locked the doors and refused to allow the officers to gain entry to the building, Todd Starnes reported.

Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the church down.

“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis said.

A sentry that is usually posted outside the sanctuary to monitor the street during service also reported seeing occupants of a dark car with tinted windows filming the incident through one opened window.

“All we are seeking is the same consideration and trust that is being tendered toward the liquor stores, abortion clinics, and Walmart,” Lewis told Starnes.

Lewis is also seeking help from U.S. Attorney John Lausch. “We are trying to follow the laws of man as much as reasonably possible, but when the laws of man conflict with the laws of God, I, as a pastor, have a duty to follow the laws of God,” Lewis wrote in a recent letter to Lausch. “We will not be intimidated by this overhanded government bully...

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KEYWORDS: chicago; church; coronavirus; policestate; tyranny
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1 posted on 05/24/2020 9:12:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

good news


2 posted on 05/24/2020 9:16:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Lewis is also seeking help from U.S. Attorney John Lausch. “We are trying to follow the laws of man as much as reasonably possible, but when the laws of man conflict with the laws of God, I, as a pastor, have a duty to follow the laws of God,” Lewis wrote in a recent letter to Lausch. “We will not be intimidated by this overhanded government bully...

From the mouths of babes.

But it is truly a shame that they voted for someone who does not believe in any G_d but herself. Not matter what the Constitution says ...

3 posted on 05/24/2020 9:18:44 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Here's what may have REALLY gotten them in trouble with herrhonor(?):

We believe all forms of sexual impurity (including sodomy, homosexuality, and effeminacy) are an abomination to God (Romans 1:18-32; I Corinthians 6:9-11; Leviticus 18:22-30); and that by recognition and repentance of these sins, salvation of the lost is still possible (John 7:8-11).

From the church's website at https://www.cornerstonebaptistchicago.com/what-we-believe/

4 posted on 05/24/2020 9:21:47 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Glad they locked the doors and didn’t let them in.

This power hungry tyrant needs to be removed from power.


5 posted on 05/24/2020 9:21:52 PM PDT by Trillian
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Subtitle : “Democrats arrest Martin Luther King for delivering sermon”

But let those drug dealers go free.

6 posted on 05/24/2020 9:22:35 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Joe Biden:"If you don't support me then you ain't black"(explains the polls on blacks and Trump))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One of the worst types of humans is a minority lesbo with delusions of grandeur.


7 posted on 05/24/2020 9:22:39 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Easier to shut down a house of worship than a drug house.


8 posted on 05/24/2020 9:23:09 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
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This COVID madness is teaching us all we need to know about the tyrannical Left.

Stop electing these people. Every last one of them needs to be tossed out on their ear.


9 posted on 05/24/2020 9:25:19 PM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: texas booster

It would be instructive to know how many members of this church, including the pastor, voted for this woman.


10 posted on 05/24/2020 9:25:48 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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I pray to God Almighty the dems keep their tyrannical crap going from now to election day.


11 posted on 05/24/2020 9:26:59 PM PDT by ocrp1982
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders.

I get it! She's secretly working for Trump, trying to tip Illinois for the GOP when churchgoing black voters stampede to vote for the man who stands for liberty instead of slavery to the whims of power-mad perverts.

Somebody please explain: What are these Democratic governors trying to accomplish by keeping everyone out of work and locked out of their churches? Do they not grasp that it will tick off more people than it will please? Nanny-states are no fun for anyone but the Nanny and a few loyal she-goats.

12 posted on 05/24/2020 9:27:18 PM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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The mayor sends in a police raid; meanwhile there are 37 shootings/deaths in Chicago over the weekend. Great mayor you idiots elected, much like the rest of Illinois.


13 posted on 05/24/2020 9:32:06 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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Oath Keepers, lol! Who made that one up, Obama?
14 posted on 05/24/2020 9:35:34 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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The congregants should visit the officers’ homes, during a festive occasion if possible, bang on doors and demand entrance.


15 posted on 05/24/2020 9:39:01 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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To: Redcitizen

Less dangerous also.


16 posted on 05/24/2020 9:39:52 PM PDT by sport
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To: RJS1950

Yep I know right? Shaking my head at the idea of a police presence at a church, when rampant crime is happening everyday in her City , in spite of this lockdown order.

It sounds like the youth gangs who are doing God knows what, in the streets of Chicago, are not obeying her lockdown order.


17 posted on 05/24/2020 9:41:48 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The church should declare it is harboring two illegal refugee families. The mayor would have no option but to back off.


18 posted on 05/24/2020 9:45:20 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Racist!


19 posted on 05/24/2020 9:52:05 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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The pastor of the mostly black congregation, Courtney Lewis, reportedly shut and locked the doors and refused to allow the officers to gain entry to the building, Todd Starnes reported.

Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the church down.

“Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
Cause I’m in need of some restraint“
(Rolling Stones)

Lightfoot Is Lucifer.


20 posted on 05/24/2020 9:52:25 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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