Protesters disrupting a Minnesota church service are an example of why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard left the Democratic Party, she said, more than three years after she shed that political affiliation.
She blasted her old party on social media Tuesday while condemning the anti-ICE demonstrators who disrupted a St. Paul church service on Sunday by pouring into the sanctuary and chanting “Out ICE.”
Ms. Gabbard said the disruption is indicative of the party’s hatred for religion.
“The anti‑ICE mob staging a so‑called ’protest’ inside this Minneapolis church during a service is the latest example of their disrespect for religious freedom and rejection of our right to worship as we choose,” she said.
One of the reasons she fled the Democratic Party, she said, is its leaders’ attempts to “undermine religious freedom, erase God’s presence from every aspect of public life, and their open hostility toward people of faith and spirituality.”
When the former Hawaii representative announced that she was departing the Democratic Party in 2022, it came down to religion.
“The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality,” she said in a video statement.
She said then that the Democratic Party was under the “complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”
Ms. Gabbard became a political independent following the public condemnation of her party before joining the Republicans in 2024.
The Democrats’ “hostility towards God and those who have faith in or are trying to cultivate their love for God” drove her away, she added.
After Sunday’s upheaval, Ms. Gabbard said those who tried to “intimidate and terrorize” those in the Minneapolis church are a prime example of such religious hatred.
She said the protestors’ “demoniac” behavior should be condemned by everyone and called for those who took part in the tactics to be held accountable.
