Protests against Cities Church on St. Paul’s Summit Avenue are back in the headlines, as another protester was arrested recently as part of civil rights activists anti-ICE protests. Although the judge quickly dropped the charges for lack of probable cause, the charges remain against the civil rights activists who broke up the church’s services during a Sunday in January to draw attention to a pastor’s role as an ICE senior officer.
In January, Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the main organizers of the protest, explained, “We thought congregants would want to know they have a pastor in their church doubling as the director for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Minnesota. The core of the gospel message is to love thy neighbor as you love yourself. And ICE has been doing the opposite of that.”
Regardless of whether or not you support the tactics of the activists that disrupt a religious service, or use a bullhorn on a public street, upon closer inspection, Cities Church deserves to be scrutinized…