You don't want Federal Law enforced?
ICE is good to go.
I'm amused how much you guys love Federal Law now. I don't recall you loving it so much when Obama and Biden were in charge.
If this crowd came in and vandalized the church, you might have a point. (You know, like the J6 rioters vandalized the Capitol).
But they didn't. They just asked this white nationalist Church why they had an ICE Agent as a pastor.
Cities Church in St. Paul is the persecutor, not the persecuted
www.salon.com
All this, though, apparently pales in comparison to a more serious form of oppression: right-wing Christians being told it’s immoral to support a brutal, racist assault on their neighbors.
On Sunday, Jan. 18, a group of anti-racism activists disrupted services at the far-right Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, because one of the church pastors, David Easterwood, acts as a field director for ICE as it rains terror on the Twin Cities. The protesters denounced the shooting death of
Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent, as well as other ICE offenses, such as charging into people’s homes without warrants, threatening violence against protesters, and detaining and beating non-white people — including citizens, many of whom are elderly or children.
“[T]hey are insecure little sexist and racist power-mongers who desire to be God,” wrote Rick Pidcock, a former fundamentalist and worship music expert, in a
lengthy exposé for Baptist News Global. According to Pidcock, Cities Church is rooted in a network of far-right churches that teach “male headship and female submission” so extreme that their thought leader, John Piper, has argued that women shouldn’t even occupy management positions where men might have to answer to them.
Parnell himself has
written extensively about how men “are given a charge to lead.” Under his leadership, female parishioners teach courses on
learning to submit to your husband even when it’s “overwhelming, frustrating, or maybe even impossible,” as it seemed to be for a former church member who told Pidcock that the pastors pressured her to stay in a marriage with an emotionally abusive man who bankrupted his family by spending money on online sex workers.
Joe Rigney, one of Cities Church’s founders, has recently become a
MAGA media darling because he, along with
podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, has been pushing the idea that
empathy is a sin. He now serves as associate pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, a congregation
led by Doug Wilson, a pastor who has
praised race relations under slavery and denounced women’s suffrage, to argue that people are “being manipulated by empathy.” Rigney’s misogyny is never far from the surface, including when he
denounced empathy as evidence that “feminism is a cancer” because it allows women to move beyond just being “life-givers and nurturers” and into public spaces, where their allegedly toxic compassion is a “curse.”
