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.
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.
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For purposes of U.S. tax law, churches are considered to be public charities also known as Section 501(c)(3) organizations. As such, they are generally exempt from federal, state, and local income and property taxes.
Religious institutions (churches) are exempt from taxation because America's government has not been given the power to govern religion. This is an expression of the basic principles behind the founding of this country, that is, there is an Authority above the government that has established rights apart from the government.
Since local, state and federal governments cannot legally confiscate taxes from churches, they look at churches as being non essential business's in today's environment.
This move by Mayor Lori Lightfoot against opening churches is done to punish believers in God. She knows as being an open homosexual, she is living a life of sin. She detest the Bible and followers of Jesus Christ because the Bible clearly states that homosexuality is a sin.
The Bible states in Leviticus 18:22-24 - "'Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman or woman having sexual relations with a women as she is a man, that is detestable."'Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. "'Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.
Quotes from Martin Luther King::
Dr. King was a Godly man as it is revealed in the quotes provided his soul carried in it the light of the World... the fleshly tablets of Dr. King's heart reflecting the indelible Word of God ... which is found in all of his best writings and speeches. If only the world would listen, if only we would take to heart the fulness of Dr. KIng's inspiration ... the Holy Spirit would drive out the hate and the anger, the evil of the day... replacing it with love and understanding.
MAYOR OF CHICAGO IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TYRANT. OPENLY GAY OR NOT SHE HAS SHOWN HER BIAS AGAINST GOD FEARING PEOPLE AND HAS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE IF SHE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO RESIGN FOR HER ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIOR. LIGHTFOOT ACTUALLY HAS A HEAVY FOOT ON THE THROATS OF HER CONSTITUENTS.
RECALL"HEAVYFOOT", RECALL"HEAVYFOOT", RECALL"HEAVYFOOT", RECALL"HEAVYFOOT"
the people fo Chicago and some of the Church voted for her look at what the result of that.
I believe when these kind of cops show up...they should get their names/badge numbers, and file lawsuits against them PERSONALLY also, for violating their oaths to the Constitution.
I'am afraid that the State will have any civil case thrown out due to the Police having IMMUNITY from civil acts while performing official duties...
As long as the officer is performing his job properly, however, there is no violation of a suspect's rights. In fact, police officers are immune from lawsuits for the performance of their jobs unless willful, unreasonable conduct is demonstrated.Jul 20, 2017
Yeap... proving willful, unreasonable conduct is the burden of the public... and when the government is involved it becomes a very difficult... not to mention expensive.
It's not just the black churches....they want to shut them ALL down, and if they can't, there are plans to literally DESTROY any churches that won't comply:
https://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/chicago-threatens-to-close-or-de...