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
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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.
“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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They should’ve said they were sheltering an illegal immigrant inside. Ahhhhhh, THEN what would she do?
“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.”
Get this through your head, Pastor. Groot hates you. She hates your flock. If she thought she could get away with it she’d order all of you killed.
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It is time for the full implementation of the Stafford Act to deal with this.
“All we are seeking is the same consideration and trust that is being tendered toward the liquor stores, abortion clinics, and Walmart”
What a brilliant, wonderful statement. This man’s wise words should be repeated by all pastors as they reopen God’s churches. I cannot believe the incredible LACK of leadership among pastors these days. Where have all the leaders gone? I wish I could go to this man’s church.
The church across the street from me had mass today. No cops, no problems. Smaller crowd than usual, I assume they had some kind of lottery to pick who could attend.
L8r
Welcome to the new Chicago where a black lesbian leftist mayor is waging “lawfare” war on black churches. Damned. She makes Rahm Emanuel seem like a Saint.
Hey Chicagoans! Anyone paying attention to what you have wrought? What you got? What you deserve?
And the bodies keep piling up on the southside.
Re: It would be instructive to know how many members of this church, including the pastor, voted for this woman.
I doubt it. This is Chicago. The last time a Republican was mayor in Chicago was 1931. That being the case and considering the type of politician who runs for mayor in Chicago, I would assume that everyone running for mayor is well ensconced on the left.
#21. “I am Groot. Trevor, you are a fool. In space, we have no use for fools, black or otherwise”.
Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB”
So he’s an educated and well spoken guy.
Will he be smart enough to tell his voters to vote for Trump?
What would Chicago do with a straight, white, conservative, law-abiding mayor?
Find someone else to put in jail.....
I am getting very worried. One would think these pure scum leftists would wake people up but I have a sick feeling that this is doing very little to those who will drone their ass to vote these people back in. I hope I am wrong. The DNC must know something that we don’t like the base is cool with all of this. I do know the DNC thinks illegals pandering and fraud will be part of the get Trump.
Buckwheats sister got mad. F her.
If the Obammunists get mail-in voting enacted in enough places, it won't matter how many people they tick off. They'll have total power, hence the hysterical push for mail-in voting.
Unreal
It’s 1865
Good for them.
Well, we now know where cops stand...
And now you want our help?
Didn’t she try this with a Romanian church the other week? something about towing all the cars - which turned out to be essential workers’ cars?
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