15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And He entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling [a]doves; 16 and He would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple grounds. 17 And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard this, and they began seeking how to put Him to death; for they were afraid of Him, because all the crowd was astonished at His teaching. Mark 11:15-18


13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And within the temple grounds He found those who were selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 And He made a whip of [a]cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; 16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away from here; stop making My Father’s house a place of business!” John 2:13-16

ICE actually entered churches and illegally kidnapped churchgoers. That's a lot more disruptive than what these protesters did. And they weren't protesting the church, they were protesting Easterwood's ICE involvement.

that book they are beating you over the head with says.

Welcoming strangers is like #1 on Jesus' list

Is anyone taking bets on if the protestors will be convicted? I wouldn't be surprised if D.O.J. sends their top prosecutor, A.D.A., Pirro, to prosecute the case.

You can't try them in a court of law if you don't know who they are.

A childhood friend (from 1st, 2nd grade) showed up on FaceBook.
I said hi to him. He went on to tell me he's a very popular minister and has lots of followers (he was very proud of himself)...I looked at his page and he's a maga.

But, only those that they don't like. The atrocities that their own thugs are doing are perfectly fine.

It's not like what ICE does, breaking into churches and kidnapping people without due process.

Trespassing is usually just a misdemeanor.

Church's usually say all welcome here? So we'll see i guess.

No quiet for them if they believe they can terrorize the community Monday through Saturday and pretend to be peaceful on Sunday

but one day, hopefully soon, these criminals will be facing their own charges and juries and, again, hopefully, convictions and long prison sentences.

The law applies to anyone who
&quot 2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship..."

Welcome to DU, by the way.

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It's simple bluster, the usual garbage from the MAGAfascist infested DOJ.

According to the FACE Act.

Based on the video and what the law says

We all do it. Two in this thread have predicted the outcome. . Are they lawyers?

but I do need to look up what happened and find out what resulted in all these allegations. All I've seen this afternoon was part of a story from Jim Acosta about Don Lemon being targeted by the Trump's DOJ. Which does not surprise me. But he's a reporter, so he's just covering a story. Whether the protest itself could be illegal is a different subject.

Did the STOP coming to this church? Would like to hear more about this NON CHRISTIAN PASTOR!!

They are, of course, free to believe what they want (which includes the usual anti-LGBT stuff, https://www.citieschurch.com/beliefs), but it's not surprising that an ICE official is also a Bible-thumper (I was also a bit disheartened to see that they have seriously uglified the interior of what was once a beautiful Episcopal church).

That's about it. Disrupting a church service is not a civil right violation.

&quot a) Prohibited Activities.—Whoever—
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(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship...

There's no crime here and you're way too eager for there to be one. This is your first few hours on DU, trying to get everyone to believe that the protestors are bad and not the MAGAfascist ICE scumbags?

They're not going to get charged, and no jury in Minnesota would convict them.

And the MAGAfascist trashbags can troll and have tantrums all they want.

100%.

It’s not only about reproductive rights.

To say that sections listed as number 2 in a law don’t exist is just not how law works.

Let's say an evangelical Baptist pastor r*ped a thirteen year old girl in his youth group (as evangelical Baptist pastors seem to do far too often!). Let's say the victim's father found out about the r*pe, and decided to confront the pastor in front of the whole congregation on the following Sunday. The father plans what he is going to say, goes to the church, sits for the first few minutes knowing full well what he is going to do, and then, at the time he feels is right, stands up and begins yelling at the pastor who r*ped his daughter, absolutely going off on the guy and refusing to either leave the building or stop his tirade. He inveighs against the pastor for minutes until people start giving up. The pastor is yelling back, people are trying to get him to leave but he refuses, and the whole Sunday service breaks down into chaos. Eventually, people start leaving and the service ends when the pastor leaves as well.

In your view, has the father violated 18 U.S.C. § 248?

Would you have this father charged for violating this statute?

... break simple trespassing laws.

Are you sure you're at the right web site?

Unless they were issued a legal trespass notice. Me thinks the church’s pastors, David Easterwood, the dunderhead, neglected to initiate one.

They can trespass them the next time.

A federal case. Fuck them.

Which is hardly "by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction".

I think unmasking an ice agent - showing that they are clergy - is what DOJ is really pissed off about.

I'm a Pagan. For YEARS now, we have had our public rituals interrupted by Christofascists who felt it was their right and duty to preach over us and tell us that we were going to Hell. This happened most recently on Halloween in Salem, MA, but it has happened elsewhere. The Christofascists are even preaching at the Buddhist monks doing the Walk for Peace across the South. So, when THEIR services get interrupted by a bunch of real Christians protesting their fascist pastor, they whine and say that they're being oppressed. Well, fuck them all. The next time you decide to invade someone's public worship, think about this. Like I said, I'm a Pagan. I stopped doing this "turn the other cheek" stuff.

Very sorry to hear your services/gatherings have been interrupted!

Off hand I don't know anyone face 2 face that practices The Craft.

Other than that; I'm certainly glad they highlighted this "pastor's" hypocrisy!