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If you are a left-wing activist living in St. Paul, Minnesota, you now have official state sanction to invade a church, scream at parishioners, terrify children and harass people on their way out of worship services.<\/p>\n

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All that happened at Cities Church on Jan. 18, when a mob invaded the Southern Baptist church during a protest against its pastor, Jonathan Parnell, who is also an official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

Protesters reduced children to tears by screaming at them, \u201cDo you know your parents are Nazis? They are going to burn in hell.\u201d Others accused the parishioners of being \u201crich\u201d and \u201cWhite.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, because none of the 39 people arrested had committed physical violence or vandalism, St. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao dismissed all state charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision should not be interpreted as an endorsement of unlawful behavior or public disorder,\u201d Ms. Kao said. \u201cThe right to peacefully protest is protected, as is the right to exercise one\u2019s religious beliefs. Balancing these equally important rights is paramount to our decision today.\u201d<\/p>\n

What part of shutting down a worship service and harassing worshippers constitutes \u201cbalancing\u201d? Letting the mob get away with it?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had stormed into the house of God, a place of peace and refuge, and they defiled it with rage,\u201d Mr. Parnell wrote in an op-ed in which he offered an olive branch to the protesters, writing that the love of Jesus \u201cis a joy that opens wide its arms to our cities, even to those who raised their fists against us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the defendants still face charges brought by a federal grand jury, the city attorney\u2019s dismissal of the cases sends a loud signal to heavily subsidized and coordinated left-wing protest networks: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. We\u2019ve got your back, especially here in one of the most progressive sanctuary cities in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The church was invaded after days of protests against ICE roundups of thousands of illegal alien criminals in Minneapolis, during which two anti-ICE activists were killed.<\/p>\n

One of those in the Cities Church mob in St. Paul was former CNN news anchor Don Lemon, who had conferred with the activists and given them donuts before the church invasion.<\/p>\n

Although he insists that he was merely a journalist livestreaming the protest, Mr. Lemon was arrested on charges of violating state and federal civil rights laws. The federal charges include \u201cacts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference and physical obstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the church invasion was apparently no big deal to Ms. Kao, a longtime progressive activist who spearheaded diversity, equity and inclusion policies at the Minnesota Bar Association.<\/p>\n

In practice, DEI means open discrimination against Whites, males, Christians and conservatives \u2014 and, increasingly, against Jews.<\/p>\n

Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote a letter Thursday to Ms. Kao, asking why the church invasion did not constitute a First Amendment violation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf someone organized a group of protesters to take over your office, would you find that acceptable?\u201d he wrote. \u201cThere would be no violence \u2014 just in-your-face invective and intimidation. If this were to happen, you wouldn\u2019t have a leg to stand on, morally or legally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Donohue also wrote a letter Thursday to acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, asking him to make the Cities Church case a priority.<\/p>\n

Noting that he himself had attended a rally a week earlier to protest hatred against Jews in New York City, Mr. Donohue wrote: \u201cToday I am rallying to the side of our Protestant brothers in St. Paul who have been targeted by hate mongers. If people of faith cannot practice their religion without intimidation and interference, it means their First Amendment right to religious liberty means nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Antisemitic incidents are increasing in places such as New York, London, Paris and Sydney.<\/p>\n

Mosques are not immune either. In San Diego on May 18, two radicalized teenagers driven by White supremacist and Nazi ideologies killed three people at an Islamic center.\u00a0Evidence indicates the two shooters pretty much hate everyone, especially women and Jews, for which they blame even the rise of Islam.<\/p>\n

After the Hamas invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel\u2019s subsequent retaliatory attacks in the Gaza Strip, Jewish students on U.S. college campuses feared for their lives as pro-Hamas demonstrators erected anti-Zionist tent cities and told Jews they were no longer welcome.<\/p>\n

College administrators were so worried about not appearing woke that they failed to crack down on the harassers, leading to congressional hearings and several high-ranking college officials forced to step down.<\/p>\n

It is important to confront official indifference to attacks on religious liberty and law and order. Otherwise, it just metastasizes.<\/p>\n

The same sort of mob that attacked Cities Church, led by paid agitators, has been rioting at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. The agitators are either confident that nothing will happen to them or hoping to trigger another fatality that they can exploit.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, law enforcement officers in cities, states and the federal government have managed to avoid such an outcome.<\/p>\n

As for the St. Paul prosecutor, Mr. Donohue finished his letter to her this way: \u201cI hasten to add that your workplace does not merit the special protections afforded a house of worship. But that wouldn\u2019t stop you from screaming to high heaven if protesters invaded your space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robert Knight is a columnist for The Washington Times. His website is roberthknight.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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