After the recent attack on the Cities (Southern Baptist) Church in Minneapolis on Sunday, the Rapid City Post put out this story.

Many people chimed in to support this idea.

Christian leaders urge protecting worshippers’ rights after protesters interrupt service

Several faith leaders are urgently calling for protecting the rights of worshippers while also expressing compassion for migrants. That’s after a group of anti-immigration enforcement protesters disrupted Sunday service at a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Trey Turner leads the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention to which Cities Church belong. He says churches should “provide compassionate pastoral care” migrant families affected by immigration enforcement, but “the sanctity of our houses of worship” must be respected too. The U.S. Department of Justice says it opened a civil rights investigation after a group of about three dozen protesters walked into the church during the service, loudly chanting. (Full Story)

This of course contrasts with the weak-as-dishwater response by thug Walz to the attack:

But the behavior of Walz, Ellison, Frey, or whoever (including the “protesters” who invaded the meetinghouse), do not justify or demand more laws or calls for more government action “protecting the rights” and “sanctity of our houses of worship.”

For one thing, we don’t need new laws – we need to get rid of most we have.

Secondly, who thinks that such “protesters” (rioters? insurrectionists? patriots? resisters?) are going to obey such a law anyway? Just as we know that criminals do not obey gun control laws, we cannot expect people to obey laws protecting “places of worship” – especially not when they believe that their actions are justified in opposition to the claimed tyranny of ICE.

Third, anyone who depends on the cops or whatever government agency to protect themselves against a home invasion or an attack on their business or meetinghouse is not being very wise. As the saying goes, “the attacker is seconds away, the cops are minutes away.”

Fourth, religious assemblies have just as much right to defend themselves as a family in a private home or a business owner in their store. Yes, even in Woke Minnesota. Although we cannot count on governments to actually recognize this, more and more. There are, indeed, some States that ban weapons of self-defense in “houses of worship.” And there are religious groups who practice (or at least preach) absolute pacifism. But that is their decision; government should not have the power to override their freely-made choice, no matter how much risk it creates for them.

Fifth, consider DC’s and Saint Paul’s record on upholding the right to assemble, the right to free speech, and the right to worship (serve) God in accordance with their conscience. Frankly, it is pitiful. So, would yet another law really do any good? Would enforcing this law be any better than the current situation?

All this said, we suspect that the politicians in Minnesota, both DFL and GOP, will pass some sort of feel-good legislation to “prove” that they care. Because that is the way politicians are.