City Targets Pastors With Criminal Citations for Feeding Needy in Public Parkhttps://townhall.com/columnists/jordan-sekulow/2025/11/13/city-targets-pastors-with-criminal-citations-for-feeding-needy-in-public-park-n2666444For more than four years, three local churches in Colorado peacefully gathered every Tuesday and Thursday at a public park to do what Scripture commands: worship, pray, study Scripture, and share meals in Christian fellowship. They exercised their constitutionally protected right to freely practice their faith in a traditional public forum – a right that has been guaranteed to Americans since our nation’s founding.
Then the City of Northglenn decided their religious exercise was a problem, going so far as criminally citing the pastors for exercising their constitutionally protected rights to religion, speech, and assembly.
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Since July 2020, pastors and members from local churches, including Brent Denney and David McCamish, who are members of Brave Church, and Pastor Dustin Mackintosh from Next Step Christian Church, have led weekly ministry gatherings at E.B. Rains, Jr. Memorial Park. These weren’t rowdy events or disruptive protests. They were peaceful religious gatherings centered on worship, prayer, Bible study, fellowship, and Christian charity, including providing food to the homeless.
For four years, there were no complaints, no incidents, and no problems. The churches used the park’s pavilions on a first-come, first-served basis, just like any other group. The ministry operated without any objection from city officials.
Then, in the summer of 2024, everything changed. The chief of police informed the pastors he had been “tasked with shutting down” their weekly gatherings. City officials called a private meeting with representatives from the churches and made the city’s position clear: They liked what the churches were doing, but they couldn’t do it in Northglenn. The city’s objection wasn’t to the size of the gatherings or any actual disruption. Their objection was to who the churches were serving and why they were doing it – because of their religious conviction to follow Christ’s command to serve “the least of these.”
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Rather than respect these churches’ First Amendment rights, the City of Northglenn enacted Resolution CR-54 in June 2025, specifically designed to shut down religious gatherings. The new ordinance prohibits groups of five or more from using park pavilions and outdoor spaces on a recurring basis.
The article has a picture of one of the distribution events. The City of Northglenn enforces this reg selectively, not interfering, for example, with a weekly yoga group. The author of this article, Jordan Sekulow, is the Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice, which is defending these churches.
Unsurprisingly, except to DU-folk, the two churches named are what Duncanpup/TEB calls "wicked bible toting ****ers".
