Churches on the rise!

OPINION:

Seattle city officials tried to prevent a Christian prayer rally from gathering at a local park by fencing off the area — the same area that’s frequently used by violent Antifa types to set fires and throw Molotov cocktails and fight against police and law and order and America.

And this time the church said no way, not leaving, not going quietly into that godless night.

Let Us Worship rally founder Sean Feucht: today’s equivalent of yesterday’s fighting pastors. The spirit of America is far from dead.

“It’s so wild because [the day before] they had Antifa rioters throwing Mov cocktails at policemen, and yet the city focused their energy on our peaceful worship and prayer rally. … They barricaded the whole park, they put fences around it,” he said. “[They] were blocking us out from gathering to worship.”

And the city’s response? The city’s reason?

“They just said anticipated crowding,” Feucht said on a recent “Fox & Friends” interview.

It’s an interesting reason — since the prayer rally was the only event scheduled for the park.

“It was obviously a targeting and a discrimination toward believers in the city,” he said.

So Feucht said umm, OK.

And then he changed the name of the prayer rally to a “worship protest” and went ahead.

“We just pivoted and called it a worship protest, so now technically it’s legal, and we went to the streets,” he said.

Bam. That’s how you do it.

Churches, rise up! Onward, Christian soldiers. The Founding Fathers were clear on this point: Government has no right to interfere in the free worship of citizens. No, not even for a new coronavirus. Government especially has no right to interfere in the free worship of citizens while at the same time allowing violence to take place in the streets under the guise of First Amendment rights.

If violent thugs can rally without permits, believers in Christ can rally without permits.

To argue otherwise is hypocritical, unconstitutional and just plain wicked.

And it’s absolutely imperative for the future freedoms of America that churches, that believers, that faithful followers of the Word, stand fast, stand strong and stand tall for God and country — and refuse to cave to secular and godless politicians bent on creating constitutional chaos.

In America, rights come from God, not government.

That’s the core of our nation’s greatness. Government may try and close the physical structures of church buildings. Government may try and close parks and other venues where worshippers gather.

But as Feucht shows, the faithful will still gather in His name — with or without government’s permission. Let the backlash against government overreach spread far and wide. Let the churches, all the churches, if necessary, take it to the streets.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE.