Walk it, don't talk it.

11 major religious groups – including Lutherans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, and Evangelical churches – are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Krazy Killer Noem. 

Why? Because those bounty hunting ICE thugs have begun raiding churches...with guns. 

“We come to church to experience God’s love proclaimed in Jesus Christ and not to experience a raid by armed members of the government,” Bishop Nathan Pipho of the New England Synod said in a written statement. (source) 

Democracy Forward, a Washington, D.C.-based legal org., and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs are suing DHS on behalf of the church groups. They’re asking a judge to declare Homeland Security’s policy unconstitutional and to issue a preliminary injunction against raids at places of worship, at these places which are meant to be sanctuaries.

A snippet from the full complaint (found here):

1.   For over 30 years, the federal government restricted immigration enforcement at houses of worship and other “sensitive locations,” recognizing that it could enforce immigration laws without, in its words, “denying . . . people of faith access to their places of worship.”
2.   Under that policy, the government barred immigration enforcement in or near
sensitive locations “to the fullest extent possible.” ...
3.   Soon after taking office, the new administration abruptly reversed course and abandoned these longstanding protections.
4.   In a memorandum issued on January 20, 2025, then-Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Benjamine Huffman, rescinded the prior sensitive locations policy. In place of the guardrails that policy provided, Acting Secretary Huffman determined that the decision whether to carry out enforcement actions at or near houses of worship should be left to agents’ individual discretion, guided only by “common sense.”

"Common sense" //snort// As if! ICE bounty hunters do NOT have common sense. All they care about is subjugation and all the jackpots they'll reap from al the brown skinned people they turn in.

It’s happening in California. Two churches were targeted in Montclair within San Bernardino County. Also, masked ICE bounty thugs had a pastor at the end of a loaded rifle while they stole a man outside of a church near Los Angeles. It’s happened in Massachusetts and in Georgia. I’m sure it’s happening in a lot of other places too but the news just isn’t getting out. What’s happening in the parking lots and vestibules of all those big box prosperity gospel bullshit churches? Surely Joel Osteen’s Lakewood church has a few brown hued congregants that’d appeal to ICE. Is Joel or Gov. Abbottoir payin off ICE to stay away, to not cause an unsightly, payday effecting fuss? 

One Florida pastor is combating ICE’s intimidation tactics in an amusing way. He’s billing them. What for? Use of church property without permission. Who knows where this will go but tying ICE up in red tape is a creative, out-of-the-box potential solution.

Christians, you of the orange idol worshiping stripe that is, here’s the persecution you’ve long been claiming. It’s coming from within your MAGA house but only happening to your brown skinned brothers and sisters. Do you care?

Some congregations have pivoted to meet secretly, holding baptisms — occasions previously seen as something to celebrate in community — in private, according to the complaint. “The open joy and spiritual restoration of communal worship has been replaced by isolation, concealment, and fear,” the complaint states.
(source) 

 Don't tell me you're a Christian – show me. Walk it, don't talk it. Start by protecting and shielding immigrants. 

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
~ Leviticus 19:34

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
~ Ezekiel 47:22

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
~ Zechariah 7:9-10

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
~ Matthew 25:35 

Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.
~ Matthew 25:40 

Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
~ Romans 12:13