Don Lemon made a little boy cry and Hollywood couldn’t be happier.

On a Sunday in January, Lemon led a group of disruptive “protestors” into Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., to scream at the parishioners about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who allegedly attended the church. Lemon, a former CNN host, gleefully filmed Christian families fleeing the church in the snow, standing outside the building and interviewing church members who had nothing to do with ICE deportation efforts. In several videos leading up to the protest, Lemon refers to himself and the rioters as “we,” intimating that he knew the group’s plans to target the church.

Lemon has been arrested and federally charged under the FACE Act, a law which the Biden administration infamously used to target and persecute pro-lifers praying outside abortion clinics. But the law also prohibits the disruption of peaceful religious services, an action in which Lemon took part.

In videos of the incident, a young boy sobs while his father comforts him as the demonstrators scream and chant. According to an affidavit, some protestors “physically obstructed some parishioners as they attempted to leave the church.” Other rioters screamed “Nazi!” in children’s faces and continued screaming as they cried. Parents attempting to retrieve their children from childcare downstairs were blocked by agitators.

“Daddy, I thought you were going to die,” one parent recounts his child saying.

For all this, Hollywood elites gave Lemon a standing ovation at a gala before the Grammys last Sunday.

As referenced above, pro-lifers were arrested for far less under the same federal law Lemon is charged under. Yet under the new moral framework of the liberal mind, prayer outside an abortion clinic is far worse than what Lemon did. In the Hollywood elite’s mind, crimes against Christians are not crimes at all, because Christians are evil oppressors. With rare exceptions, journalists have chosen to harass Christian groups – groups which the left deems irredeemable.

After his Minnesota shenanigans, Lemon appeared on a podcast to play the victim due to his status as a black homosexual. There is no sense of irony with these people. Only a skewed sense of self-worth would allow a person to claim victimhood after members of his group made little children cry in fear.

This mentality continued during the entire Grammy awards which occurred shortly after the gala where Lemon received such applause. Celebrities with million-dollar gated mansions shamed the country for wanting security on their own borders. Platitudes such as “no one is illegal on stolen land” were spewed by celebrities with entire security teams protecting them from illegal behavior. In the war to secure our border, Hollywood has decided that the victims are illegal aliens. Thus, they are blissfully unaware of how ironic it is that they did not say a word about Laken Riley or Rachel Morin or Sarah Root, victims of illegal alien crime.

It’s increasingly clear that the entire Hollywood class is a racket. The sooner we realize this,  the sooner we will cease being shocked. Only indignation will remain – indignation that Lemon would take a victory lap after what he did.

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This article was made possible by The Fred & Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal.

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