What happened in Minnesota was not reporting. It was not activism. It was not a misunderstanding. It was a deliberate act of intimidation against a church, carried out under the false cover of journalism — and it deserves to be treated as such.
When Don Lemon and his associates entered a church service to disrupt worship, they crossed a line this country has treated as sacred since its founding. Churches are not props. Worship services are not public stages. And the First Amendment is not a shield for harassment.
This was not free speech. It was an organized effort to interfere with the most basic liberty Americans have: the right to worship without coercion.
The Law Is Clear — and It Cuts Both Ways
The Left loves to invoke the Constitution when it suits them, but the Constitution does not belong to journalists alone. The same First Amendment that protects the press explicitly protects the free exercise of religion — and it does so first, not second.
Federal law already addresses this. The FACE Act does not only apply to abortion clinics. It explicitly protects churches and religious facilities from intimidation, obstruction, and disruption. That provision was put there for a reason, and it was meant for moments exactly like this.
More damning still is the potential application of the Ku Klux Klan Act — a law designed to stop organized groups from conspiring to deprive others of their constitutional rights. When individuals plan in advance, coordinate their actions, and intentionally disrupt religious worship to silence or intimidate, they step squarely into that territory.
Calling this “journalism” doesn’t change what it is. Trespass dressed up with a camera is still trespass.
Private Property Does Not Disappear Because You’re Invited
A church is not public property simply because it opens its doors. Inviting someone into worship is no different than inviting them into your home. The invitation is conditional — and the moment someone violates the rules of that space, the invitation is revoked.
No church is obligated to host political stunts. No congregation is required to surrender its service to agitators. And no pastor is required to pause worship so someone can manufacture outrage for content.
The press has no special exemption inside a sanctuary. The Constitution restrains the government — not churches.
COVID Taught the Wrong Lesson — and This Is the Result
What makes this moment more dangerous is that it didn’t come out of nowhere. During COVID, churches were shuttered, worship was labeled “nonessential,” and Christians largely complied. The muscle of religious liberty wasn’t exercised — and it atrophied.
The message that sent was clear: sacred spaces can be overridden, worship can be interrupted, and Christians won’t push back.
That precedent invited this behavior.
When you stop defending a right, you teach others to violate it.
This Should Enrage Every Christian — Regardless of Politics
This is not a conservative issue. It is not a partisan issue. It is a Christian issue.
If churches can be invaded today because the message is unpopular, they can be invaded tomorrow because the message is inconvenient. Once worship becomes conditional on political approval, the First Amendment is already dead in practice.
You don’t have to believe in God to understand why a nation protects churches. Communities anchored in worship are more stable, more moral, and more resistant to chaos. Destroying that foundation is not progress — it is sabotage.
Storming a church is not bravery.
It is not accountability.
It is not journalism.
It is intimidation — and the law exists to stop it.
