Faith, fury, and flash mobs
Greg Maresca ——Bio and Archives--January 25, 2026
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Once upon a time in America, Minnesota’s Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis delighted in being America’s most neighborly cities. Today, it is the proud home of the new Twin Cities: Minneapolis and Mogadishu.
Last weekend at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota leftists protesters turned a Sunday Christian church service into a political flash mob. Nothing says reverence like storming a sanctuary to score points over a church elder’s job at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Such debauchery underscores that mixing politics and pews is less civic engagement and more leftist performance art.
About three dozen protesters who invaded Cities Church on January 18 violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE), that protects worshippers, “to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.”
Minnesota’s Attorney General, Keith Ellison, seemed perplexed that FACE might actually apply to........
