My friend McKenzie sent me a video clip from the Tucker Carlson show, where he first showed what happened to the pastor, and then asked all the leftist “Christian” leaders of our time: Beth Moore, David French, Tim Keller, etc. why they have nothing to say about free speech and religious liberty. I have the video of the Tucker segment in this post, and link to a couple of news articles.

Here’s the video to start:

It’s SO IMPORTANT that American Christians understand what the secular left does to Christians who take the Bible seriously. How are we supposed to behave as Christians, if we don’t have the same rights to free speech as everyone else does? Can you imagine the Canadian government and police arresting a Muslim like that? They would never do it. But they do it to Christians without hesitation.

And here’s the story from The Post Millennial:

On Thursday, Derek Reimer, the pastor at Mission 7 Ministries in Calgary was charged and arrested for mischief and causing a disturbance for his protest during a Drag Queen Story Hour event at Seton Library on Saturday.

According to Rebel News, Reimer was “forcibly removed by proponents of a Drag Queen Story Hour event” that was held at the Canadian library over the weekend. Video from the event shows several men pushing Reimer out of the room and shoving him to the ground.

After he gets up Reimer says, “It’s very abusive in there. For love is love, that looks like very hateful, very abusive.”

CTV reports that Mayor Jyoti Gondek has said she will unpack the “reasons” Canadian law enforcement could not use existing street harassment laws to crack down on protestors of drag queen story hour events.

According to Rebel News, Gondek “promised to weaponize Calgary’s anti-street harassment bylaws to prevent anti-drag show protests.”

Calgary police arrived at Reimer’s home on Wednesday and told him he was going to be arrested but did not complete the arrest at that time.

[…]Reimer was arrested previously for protesting at a different “all-ages” drag queen show.

“Reimer was the second client of the registered Canadian charity, The Democracy Fund’s (TDF) Fight The Fines program, after receiving Covid tickets for feeding the homeless, an act the City of Calgary called ‘illegal gatherings,'” reports Rebel News.

Interesting about the mayor of Calgary. Calgary used to be considered the most conservative of Canada’s major cities. But that was before they started electing a string of radical leftists, and not just at the municipal level, but at the provincial level as well.

Daily Wire had more, specifically about the Tucker Carlson clip:

Carlson noted that the administration of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has actively opposed Christian and conservative movements in recent years. “On some level, all governments hate religious people, because it’s competition. And revolutionary governments, totalitarian governments, go after religious people first,” he observed. “That is the measure of a free country in the end: are you allowed to believe that there’s an authority higher than the people in charge of your government?”

[…]“Canada has now become an atheist totalitarian state with amazing speed,” Carlson remarked. “In Canada, it’s now a crime to object to sexualized drag shows for children.”

Several Canadian ministers were likewise arrested for opening their churches despite government lockdown mandates. Pastor Tim Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church in Alberta garnered international attention as videos of police officers detaining him in front of his sobbing children and using helicopters to discover where his church had been secretly meeting circulated online. Stephens spent three weeks in jail and was served six provincial tickets for his alleged breach of public health orders, all of which were eventually dropped or cleared.

This was my favorite part – Tucker Carlson went after the big name leftist “Christian” leaders, who always seem to take the side of secular leftist Democrats who trample over the rights of Christians:

Carlson also referenced “professional Christians” who have frequently remained silent on governmental overreach and widespread disregard for biblical sexual ethics. “Where is David French, Beth Moore, Tim Keller, and all these people who are defending Christianity as actual Christians are being arrested for being Christians? Not a word.”

Daily Wire journalist Megan Basham has reported over the past several months about professed theological conservatives, including French and Keller, cooperating with efforts from the Biden administration to encourage mask-wearing and receiving the COVID vaccine. Keller and French also lauded former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, who has declared himself an “ally” of the LGBTQ movement and supported fetal human tissue research during his tenure, as a faithful Christian.

It’s too bad that these Evangelicals for Biden clowns are still respected by some ill-informed people in the church. Anyone can see what the secular left is doing, and their policies and laws are opposed to Christian values, and Christian freedoms. We need to be more serious about picking role models. I prefer people who fight against the secular left.

I was hoping that Tennessee would be first, since the Tennessee legislature has already passed a similar ban in their House and Senate, but the moderate governor Bill Lee hasn’t signed it yet. But in Mississippi, they move a little faster. Social conservative firebrand Matt Walsh was on hand to speak at the signing ceremony. Score one for “not nice” social conservatives like Matt Walsh.

Daily Wire reports:

Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) signed a bill Tuesday outlawing sex-change procedures for minors and punishing doctors who push cross-sex drugs and procedures on those under 18.

House Bill 1125, known as the “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act,” overwhelmingly passed Mississippi’s Republican-led Senate 33-15 last week after passing the state House 78-30 in January. Now, after Reeves’ signature, Mississippi state law bars health care providers from performing gender reassignment surgeries, prescribing and administrating puberty-blocking drugs, and giving cross-sex hormones to trans-identifying children.

“There is a dangerous movement spreading across America today being pushed onto our children through radical activists, social media, and online influencers,” Reeves said at the bill’s signing, adding that radical gender ideology “threatens our children’s innocence and threatens their health.”

Under the new Mississippi law, doctors and healthcare professionals who “knowingly provide gender transition procedures to any person under 18 years of age” will have their medical license revoked by the state. The law also prohibits public funds from being used for gender transitions on minors.

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, who has been on a crusade in his home state of Tennessee to protect children from the dangers of transgender treatments, joined Reeves in Jackson, Mississippi, for the bill’s signing.

“These kids are put on so-called puberty blockers to chemically castrate them, and before the age of 18, many will undergo surgery,” Walsh said. “They cannot consent to it and they cannot understand the long-term effects of it.”

“They need love and clarity, not hormone supplements and scalpels,” he added. “Our kids cannot protect themselves. We need to do it. That’s our job as adults.”

Other states have similar initiatives:

Other Republican-led states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, South Dakota, and Utah have also restricted or banned sex-change procedures for minors. The bill Alabama passed last year made it a felony to prescribe puberty blockers and hormone treatment to trans-identifying minors, but the law was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

The Tennessee legislation was passed by an even wider margin in the TN House and Senate than the Mississippi legislation.

Breitbart reports:

The Tennessee State Legislature passed a bill that would ban the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical operations on children in order to “change” their gender. The legislation now awaits Gov. Bill Lee’s signature.

Lawmakers in the State House passed the legislation 77 to 16, with three Democrats voting with the Republicans.

After allowing for a grace period for those who have already begun to attempt a transition, the bill would authorize the attorney general to investigate healthcare providers who violate the ban, who could be fined up to $25,000.

House Majority Leader William Lamberth remarked that “These children do not need these medical procedures to be able to flourish as adults.”

“They need mental health treatment. They need love and support, and many of them need to be able to grow up to become the individuals that they were intended to be,” Lamberth went on to say.

Similar bills have gained traction in various other Republican-led states, including Nebraska, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and South Carolina.

Makes you wonder what’s holding Bill Lee up. That’s a pretty wide margin. The Tennessee legislature has also passed legislation to prevent children from being exposed to highly-sexualized drag shows.

Breitbart reports:

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that would prevent drag shows from taking place on public property or in front of children.

The bill classifies “male and female impersonators” as adult cabaret performers, while also banning “adult-oriented performances that are harmful to minors.” The legislation, SB3, now makes its way to Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s office.

State Rep. Chris Todd, R-Madison County, filed the bill, saying “this is a common sense child-safety bill.” The bill, which passed by a vote of 79 to 19, makes it illegal to host an “adult cabaret performance” in a location where children are present. The legislation, which was proposed by Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson also bans adult cabaret performances on public property.

Lee hasn’t signed that legislation yet, either.

If you live in a state that allows sex-destructive surgery, why are you still there? I wouldn’t pay taxes in a state that harms children. I’d move to a state that protects children.