RebelPundit Video: Occupy the Dream or Occupy Church and State?--and ELCA pastors supporting break-ins

Even after nearly 6,000 occupier arrests, some Protestant ministers are still embracing and cheering on the Occupy Wall Street movement. Yes, many of those busts are for relatively harmless crimes such as disorderly conduct, but two occupiers have been arrested for murder. There have also been numerous rapes and assaults.

Watch RebelPundit's video of preachers--and politicians--sipping the Occupy Kool-Aid on the altar of People's Church in Chicago on Sunday during Occupy the Dream.



I also attended this event and the video is an accurate representation of what took place there that afternoon.

The most egregious statement from Sunday was from the Rev. Tom Gaulke of First Lutheran Church of the Trinity in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. "We will be supporting a homeless family in reoccupying a vacant house."

That's called a break-in. I don't know if Gaulke was there, but a vacant home on Chicago's South Side was illegally "occupied" on Thursday, as Progress Illinois reports. The self-appointed do-gooders have been rehabbing the house, which is owned by HSBC. That doesn't make things right. If I steal your car, change the oil, fill the gas tank, and then give it to someone who doesn't own a vehicle, it is still theft.

CPD: Break-in in progress
on Kenwood

Of Thursday's break-in, the Reverend Booker Vance of Stephen's Lutheran Church of Chicago South Side (Another Lutheran pastor!) told Progress Illinois, "It's legal in the sense that it's been illegal what they're doing to the community."

Both Gaulke and Vance serve under the auspices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

Chicago Police? Where are you? If you want to investigate, the home is on the 8700 block of South Kenwood.

Apparently a "homeless" woman and her children have moved into that house, but while she is clearly going through tough times, the "homeless" mom was living in her sister's home.

Related post:

Video: Chicago OccuMinister planning break-in of vacant home

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