Just ignore the Church Lady from Cold Spring
From her uneasy perch as the Church Lady-Speaker of the Minnesota House, Lisa Demuth — a candidate for governor — feels free to be the arbiter of what is Acceptable and Unacceptable behavior.
Activists in the Twin Cities got wind that David Easterwood, variously described as an elder or pastor at a St. Paul church, Cities Church, affiliated with the Southern Baptists, has a side gig as the leader of the local ICE field office. Maybe being an elder is the side gig; I don’t know. Anyway, calling this to the attention of the church during a service is Unacceptable, according to the Church Lady. Minnesota Public Radio has the story.
The behavior we saw over the weekend with protestors disrupting church services over suspicion of political differences, is absolutely unacceptable.
Every leader should condemn this blatant attempt to stifle freedom of speech and religion.
Peaceful protest is a part of the… pic.twitter.com/VXPsAdFido
— Lisa Demuth (@LisaDemuthMN) January 19, 2026
“Suspicion of political differences” is rich, Lisa. As if there were legitimate differences of opinion about the state terrorism Pastor Easterwood’s orcs are visiting on the population of Minnesota. Or the lies they are telling about Renee Nicole Good or ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who was dragged out of his home in boxer shorts, after ICE beat the door down, driven around in an ICE van for an hour or two, and then returned without apology. Oh, we thought he was a sex offender, Easterwood’s ICE orcs said. The good reverend Easterwood must have missed the lesson about the commandment to not bear false witness. A really good reverend would correct the record, or wouldn’t have permitted the false witness — lies— to be uttered in the first place.
Don’t lie to the public, Pastor Easterwood should have said to his ICE orc flock.
Easterwood also missed the Gospel lesson about welcoming the stranger, not grinding their faces in the snow or breaking their car windows. True, the Bible only makes indirect reference to due process, but a half-way sentient pastor could figure that out.
Compared to the violent crime, human rights and civil rights abuses perpetrated by Easterwood’s ICE orcs, demonstrating briefly — without violence or threat — in a service that is open to the public to raise the awareness of these abuses is, well, piffling. So naturally, the Justice Department is going to make a federal case out of it.
The Justice Department won’t investigate or charge Jonathan Ross, the ICE orc who murdered Renee Nicole Good, as seen by millions in videos, and it is trying to keep state prosecutors from doing so, either.
We truly live in the Upside Down.
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Lisa Demuth’s DAUGHTER left a comment to her tweet:
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