A mob of anti-ICE agitators burst into Cities Church in St. Paul during a Sunday service, disrupting worship and terrorizing congregants while a well-known media personality followed and filmed the intrusion. Christians who came to pray were shouted down and forced to confront political militants in a sacred space, an act that crossed every line of decency and law. Federal authorities have opened a civil rights probe into the disturbance, rightly recognizing that houses of worship must not be battlegrounds for political intimidation.
Conservative pastors across the country, including leaders who spoke out on national platforms, rightly condemned the stunt and demanded swift justice for those who barged into a service. These spiritual leaders are defending more than a building; they are defending the constitutional right to worship without fear and the rule of law that should protect every American. The Department of Justice being forced to step in shows how far the left has strayed from civil discourse into outright lawlessness.
Let’s be clear: media figures who trail mobs into churches are not exercising principled journalism — they are amplifying chaos and providing cover for intimidation. Don Lemon and others who gamely followed the crowd into a place of worship ought to answer for the role they played in legitimizing this degradation of religious liberty. Americans deserve press that reports, not participants who egg on the very mobs that erode public safety and civility.
This ugly episode didn’t arise in a vacuum; it comes amid heightened tensions after recent clashes between ICE and activists that have roiled Minneapolis and St. Paul. While people can and should peacefully protest government actions, there is a world of difference between lawful demonstration and the targeted harassment of worshippers inside a church. If political disagreement is the order of the day, it must be carried out in public squares and courts, not within sanctuaries where families and children seek refuge.
Patriotic Americans must stand with pastors and congregations who demand accountability and the full weight of the law against those who invade churches to score political points. Demand prosecutors do their job, demand local officials protect houses of worship, and demand a media that will stop normalizing mob tactics. Our country will not survive if we allow the powerful forces of the radical left and their media enablers to shred religious liberty and intimidate peaceful citizens with impunity.

