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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good news
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 ...
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/
Glad they locked the doors and didn’t let them in.
This power hungry tyrant needs to be removed from power.
But let those drug dealers go free.
One of the worst types of humans is a minority lesbo with delusions of grandeur.
Easier to shut down a house of worship than a drug house.
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.
It would be instructive to know how many members of this church, including the pastor, voted for this woman.
I pray to God Almighty the dems keep their tyrannical crap going from now to election day.
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.
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.
The congregants should visit the officers’ homes, during a festive occasion if possible, bang on doors and demand entrance.
Less dangerous also.
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.
The church should declare it is harboring two illegal refugee families. The mayor would have no option but to back off.
Racist!
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.
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“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.
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