Minneapolis ‘Protesters’ Must Be Prosecuted

First Amendment freedoms are sacrosanct—especially the right to gather together and worship God. 

But over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Minneapolis/St. Paul anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters and their supporters perversely invoked the First Amendment to justify desecrating a house of worship and interfering with others’ First Amendment rights.

While congregants of Cities Church—a Southern Baptist congregation—conducted their weekly worship service, protesters poured into the sanctuary with the express purpose of disrupting and disbanding it because one of the church’s pastors also works for ICE. 

The church’s primary pastor called the disruptive actions shameful. And they are.

More than that, though, such actions are illegal under both state and federal law.

While it’s doubtful that St. Paul’s........

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