Howdy y’all, well, I am headed to Chicago later today. I will be doing an event with Black Pastors. Nope, not Jeremiah Wright. I will not be visiting the Barack Hussein Obama library. Not much to see there unless you want to see multiple exhibits about “Hope and Change.” Yesterday, during my Tuesday morning 3.5-mile run, I thought about our recent celebration of 250 years of American independence and my trip to Chicago. It is a sad reality that in the Land of Lincoln, the Law of the Land, our Constitution, is rendered irrelevant.
Recently, LGBTQ activists protested at the New Hope Community Church in Palatine (a Chicago suburb) all because they dared not play nice during the June “Pride Month” nonsense. Yes, a Christian evangelical church, led by a Black Pastor, James Pittman, displayed electronic messages that said “God invented marriage,” “sex is an objective reality,” and “Ditch pride, embrace humility.” Doggone Pastor Pittman for embracing Biblical truths and not, as it says in Romans Chapter 12, verse 2, conforming to the world.
One would think that the LGBTQ folks of the Northwest Suburban Pride Network (NWS Pride) have read the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and recognize that the first liberty that we have as Americans, in our Law of the Land, is the freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof. It is somewhat ironic that the folks protesting the New Hope Community Church were waving “rainbow” flags when the symbol of the rainbow has a Biblical meaning, God’s promise to Noah not to ever destroy the earth by way of a flood. It is why today, when we see the sun hitting storm clouds and creating that spectacular rainbow, we are reminded of God’s covenant promise. Somehow, that got hijacked by same-sex relationship advocates. Seems to me that Christians should be the ones protesting.
Chicago, as well as Illinois itself, touts this thing called a sanctuary city and state status for illegal immigrants. It is quite clear in our Law of the Land, the Constitution, Article IV, Section 4, Guarantee Clause, that the federal government is to protect every state in the union from invasion. Title 8, U.S.C. 1325 affirms that unauthorized entry into the United States is a federal offense, a first-time misdemeanor, and a subsequent felony. So, how is it that elected officials in Chicago and Illinois are allowed to harbor individuals who have broken our laws?
Along with that, Title 18, U.S.C. 111 makes it a felony offense to obstruct, impede, or interfere with federal law enforcement operations, like ICE operations to remove criminal illegal immigrants from the country. Ya know, those folks who were unlawfully and unconstitutionally allowed entry during the Biden, or third Obama, administration. Earlier this year in Chicago, we were once again reminded of the tragic effects of these illegal, unlawful, immoral, and unconstitutional sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants. Young eighteen-year-old female Loyola University student, Sheridan Gorman, was shot and killed by a criminal, illegal immigrant: 25-year-old Jose Medina, at Tobey Prinz Beach in Rogers Park.
The sad reality is that Medina had been picked up for a shoplifting crime, but, even being illegal, was released due to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s sanctuary policy. Johnson refuses to work with ICE, which is a violation of the Law of the Land’s Supremacy Clause, Article VI, Section 2. Sheridan Gorman is dead because of Brandon Johnson, yet he has not been held accountable, as his violation of the Law of the Land in the Land of Lincoln resulted in Sheridan’s death.
Then again, there is an even greater question: how does a criminal illegal immigrant acquire a firearm? I mean, in a city like Chicago and a state like Illinois that has some of the most onerous gun-control restrictions, how does an illegal immigrant secure a weapon? It was a Black man, Otis McDonald, who took the city of Chicago all the way to the SCOTUS over his Second Amendment right. Another one of those individual rights found in the Bill of Rights in the Law of the Land. In the 2010 case, McDonald prevailed, 5-4, that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense is fully applicable to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, ya know, in the Law of the Land. Yet, still to this day, Marxist leftists, such as Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, fail to grasp the simple language of the Second Amendment, in the Law of the Land, “shall not be infringed.”
The lesson to be learned here: it is not just that the Law of the Land is disregarded in the Land of Lincoln. This disrespect to the Law of the Land is happening in every jurisdiction controlled by the Marxist left. The Law of the Land means little to leftists when it runs contrary to their ideological agenda, be it same-sex marriage, gender dysphoria, illegal immigration, life, self-defense, and property. The goal of the Marxist leftists and their Islamist accomplices is to make We the People subservient, subjugated, and submissive to their tyranny, totalitarianism, power, and control. It is imperative that we, constitutional conservatives, go behind these enemy lines and confront them, develop alliances and ignite a movement for liberty and freedom.
I can’t think of a better time than our 250th year of American independence to stand against these new Redcoats, the Marxists, Islamists, and the Democrat party. It must be our objective, with a firm reliance upon the Supreme Judge of the world, seeking His divine providence in securing and ensuring that our Law of the Land is indeed the Law of the Land.
Steadfast and Loyal.
