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Don Lemon Needs a Lesson in YOUR Rights (Courtesy of MLK on His Day)Since it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let's wrap this up with a reminder of what it really looks like to peaceably assemble and to have righteousness on your side.
Recent events in Minnesota—which PJ Media's own Jennifer Rust covered last night—attracted Lemon like a fly to manure. To recap ever-so-briefly, there was some confusion over whether SBC Cities Church pastor David Easterwood is the same David Easterwood who serves as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota. But never mind confirming facts and things before siccing anti-ICE "protestors" on worshippers during Sunday services. Yet Lemon claimed the moral high ground, telling lead pastor Jonathan Parnell, "Listen, there's a constitution, the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest." Yeah, no. Let me just say up front that I have a more restrictive reading than is generally understood of the First Amendment's right to protest—a word that doesn't even appear in the text. Here it is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. That's it. That's the whole thing. A mere 45 words long, the First protects fundamental individual rights—including, the way I read it, the right to be left alone by professional busybodies, whether they're in Congress or Don Lemon and his BLM buddies... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading, and watch the video Here.
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