Testing the 1st Amendment in Lake Worth

Publisher’s note:  My friends, some very dark clouds are gathering over Lake Worth, FL and are trying to rain on the First Amendment and, in this case, Christianity itself.  

In case you haven’t heard, the City of Lake Worth, FL is attempting to force Churches to obtain business licenses.  And while that in and of itself is bad enough; it comes on the heels of the December City Council meeting being opened with an invocation to satan himself.  You read that correctly…in an apparent effort to offer equal time to the enemy of mankind, the City Council allowed such a thing to occur in December.

Whether they realize it or not, the City Council allowed lucifer to kick the door wide open and spread his evil in the town.  To bear witness to that, a scant two months later, the city is now attacking the local churches.

In the center of this controversy is the little Common Ground Church, a Christian church that holds services at the Common Grounds Coffee Shop on South J St.  Pastor Mike Olive, who happens to own the coffee shop, holds two services each Sunday morning for all who wish to attend.  This is nothing new, pastors have been holding services in public meeting places since the beginning of our Republic, including those held in the lower chamber of the US Capitol.

Over the coming days, I intend to gather a lot more facts and information, however for right now, it doesn’t matter if you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, or anything else…because while this certainly smacks as an attack on Christianity, it is very much a 1st Amendment issue. And if they are successful with this in Lake Worth, it will spread to every belief system across the nation.

Folks, this is our freedom on the line.  Tomorrow night, Tuesday 3/3/2015 at 6:00 PM, there is going to be a gathering on the steps of Lake Worth City Hall; not to protest, but simply to pray that the City of Lake Worth and the rest of the country by extension, will recognize that that the rights of American citizens to gather and worship whenever and wherever they choose is not subject to the whims of any government, local or otherwise.

Whatever your faith, you should attend, because if they get away with this, no one and no faith is safe.

My friend Wild Bill for America has had something to say about this developing story and I welcome you to view his commentary here.