Posted on 11/10/2008 12:30:55 PM PST by IronKros
This is what we're up against.
On Sunday morning, amidst worshiping congregants and following unifying prayers that our President-elect be granted wisdom as he prepares to lead our nation through difficult global, social and economic challenges, the Michigan left declared open war on peaceful church goers.
They did it with banners, chants, blasphemy, by storming the pulpit, by vandalizing the church facility, by potentially defiling the building with lude, public, sex acts and by intentionally forcing physical confrontations with worshipers.
This didn't take place in some dystopian, post modern work of fiction and it didn't take place in San Francisco or Berkley. This was the scene at a Bible believing church in Lansing, Michigan.
Read on...
I returned home myself yesterday, from church and an afternoon watching football with the family, to find an email in my inbox from a friend in the Capitol City. Isn't surprising to see her name in the inbox as she and I often compare notes on our Sunday services.
Truth be told, I've done my best over the last year to start a friendly little rivalry with her. My church is better than hers, I insist, and I have been known to tell her why. Hers is superior to mine, she reminds me, and lists the reasons. (I admit I'm maybe a tad hyper-competitive, but my church really is the best in the world.) Yesterday's email began with an understated proclamation; "So church today was exciting..."
On Sunday, November 9, 2008 Michigan liberals sat peacefully through announcements, worship and prayer for the sick, our nation and our President-elect before staging a coordinated, disgusting and repulsive attack on worshipers and the broader concept of the church itself at Lansing's Mount Hope Church.
The lefties were a part of a liberal organization known as Bash Back Lansing and their collection of radical blogs, including one of the state's most widely read "mainstream" progressive blogs (and none which will receive a link on this website) called on "queers and trannies" from across the state and the region to converge on Lansing for what they refer to as an "action." While many of the members claim to be anarchists (they drove on roads, ate non-garden grown foods, printed materials on products created by government protected free markets, wore clothing, talk incessantly about "organization," etc etc etc) their broader goal is stated plainly on one of their lefty blogs.
"I can tell you that we are targeting a well-known anti-queer, anti-choice radical right wing establishment."
Mount Hope, for the record, is an evangelical, bible believing church whose members provide free 24 hour counseling, prayer lines, catastrophic care for families dealing with medical emergencies, support groups for men, women and children dealing with a wide variety of life's troubles, crisis intervention, marriage ministries, regular, organized volunteer work in and around the city, missions in dozens of countries across the globe, a construction ministry that has built over 100 churches, schools, orphanages and other projects all over the world and an in-depth prison ministry that reaches out, touches and helps the men and women the rest of society fears the most. They also teach respect for all human life and the Biblical sanctity of marriage as an institution between one man and one woman.
This is what Michigan liberals label a "radical right wing establishment," and over 30 of them showed up in force yesterday. Wearing secret-service style ear pieces and microphones they received the "go" from their ringleader and off they went.
Prayer had just finished when men and women stood up in pockets across the congregation, on the main floor and in the balcony. "Jesus was gay," they shouted among other profanities and blasphemies as they rushed the stage. Some forced their way through rows of women and kids to try to hang a profane banner from the balcony while others began tossing fliers into the air. Two women made their way to the pulpit and began to kiss.
Their other props? I'll let them tell you in their own words... from another of their liberal blogs:
"(A) video camera, a megaphone, noise makers, condoms, glitter by the bucket load, confetti, pink fabric...yeh."
The video camera they put to good use as they attempted to provoke a violent reaction. The image of the pink-clad folks above is one of theirs, stating in a picture worth more than a thousand words the goals of the Michigan left.
The "open minded" and "tolerant" liberals ran down the aisles and across the pews, hoping against hope to catch a "right winger" on tape daring to push back (none did). And just in case their camera missed the target, they had a reporter in tow. According to a source inside the church yesterday there was a "journalist" from the Lansing City Pulse along for the ride, tipped off about the action and more interested in getting a story than in preventing the vandalism, the violence and anti-Christian hatred being spewed by the lefties. We'll see what he files and what his editors see fit to print.
Props were readily on display too, though some of the condoms may have been put to even more nefarious use.
An hour after police and security had collected and removed who they thought were the last of the liberals, a volunteer security person discovered two more, hiding, together, in a public restroom. While their compatriots engaged in openly violent protest in front of everyone these two snuck away to potentially stage their own protest of sorts, and only by the grace of God did one of the hundreds of kids at the church not happen upon that particular restroom in those moments. Precisely how long they'd been there and precisely what they'd been up to we don't know.
The church's response? After things settled down, the blasphemy ended, the lude props removed and the families safe from fear of additional men and women running into and past them the pastor took the stage and led the congregation in one more prayer... not for retribution, or divine justice or a celestial comeuppance (that's what I'd have prayed for) but instead that the troubled individuals who'd just defiled the Lord's house, so full of anger and hate, would know Jesus' love in their lives and God's peace that exceeds human understanding.
Yesterday morning defined the difference between a church of believers and Michigan liberals. It also illustrated in shocking, painful detail precisely what we're up against.
These guys are so far out out there you can’t really call them liberals. I would guess that even 99.9999 percent of liberals disapprove of this kind of crap.
BTW, someone should let the author know that he wants the word “lewd” not “lude.”
It would be nice if there was a news outlet reporting this and not just a blog?
Why hasn’t any media outlet picked this up?
nothing in the Lansing paper?
“how far away can it be judging from this article?
Christians are murdered and persecuted all over the World today...and Now it is begining in America.”
Disgusting as these people are, all I see is 30 nuts who belong to an organization that’s so far out there, you can’t call it liberal or anything else definable. I don’t see where they killed anybody, and the police came and arrested them. (I’m assuming all the info is accurate, although that might be a bad assumption.)
All I can say is arm yourselves. The lunatic left has been greatly emboldened and who knows where this is going.
They do put on well produced pageants at Easter and Christmas. My daughter saw their Passion play and thought it was excellent. I haven't been, yet, but I am now planning on going to both this year.
My solution to this sort of thing would have the following features:
Encourage attendance by combat trained non-members
Lock and guard all doors if riot breaks out. No entry or exit.
Peacefully disable all recording devices.
Have all members insert ear plugs.
Increase volume on sound systen to a really uncomfortable level
Allow rioting to conclude
Call 9-1-1 to have rioters removed
Begin lawsuits against all rioters
Make sure the public knows the identity of rioters
Today it's 30 nuts, but can you fathom this happening 20 years ago? It's a trend, a direction, and sadly a harbinger of things to come. This country has been trying to shove God aside for the past 40 years. A week ago, the God-haters got a huge shot of boldness dumped on them since they now feel like they're in control of the country and it's time to go on a more aggressive offensive.
Today, it's 30 nuts, but what will it look like in a decade?
MM (in TX)
They might get more than they bargain for if they try that in a Southern church, especially Texas!
Targets of opportunity my man. They don't have the balls to try that at a mosque.
Targets of opportunity my man. They don't have the balls to try that at a mosque.
Yep, especially if it’s a cowboy church. And that’s not a role-playing thing, either.
ping
The police are also the enemy folks since they will not protect you from these liberals and they will arrest you for defending yourself. Just remember this.
JoMa
This happened right here in my town, but this is the first I am hearing of it...and words fail me.
The publisher/editor chief is a neighbor of mine. Two of the LCP regular contributors also live in my hood. Can't wait to discuss this with them.
I think this is a "piece of Glass." I'll call Eaton County dispatch in the morning, but I'm betting this is fabrication.
It looks like it is true, but the MSM was slow to report it.
Very scary!
“Today it’s 30 nuts, but can you fathom this happening 20 years ago? It’s a trend, a direction, and sadly a harbinger of things to come. This country has been trying to shove God aside for the past 40 years.”
Don’t know. Does this count?
“The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a racially motivated terrorist attack on September 15, 1963 by members of a Ku Klux Klan group in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. The bombing of the African-American church resulted in the deaths of four girls.”
Places of worship (churches, synagogues, mosques) have been attacked and vandalized for thousands of years. This is bad, but it’s nothing new. If you have evidence it’s new, please provide.
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