Bondi pushes back on First Amendment claims after Don Lemon, others arrested over church disruption
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Attorney General Pam Bondi warns attacks on houses of worship will not be tolerated after Don Lemon was charged with FACE Act violations for disrupting a St. Paul church service.
Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.
Her remarks come amid criticism that the arrests violated the agitators' First Amendment rights, something she dismissed by pointing to Title 18’s Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996 as evidence to the contrary.
"You also have a First Amendment right to worship freely and safely. On a Sunday morning, all of those parishioners, so many of them thought they were going to be involved in a mass shooting. They didn't know what was happening," she said.
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Don Lemon faces criminal charges and ethics violations after allegedly participating in a St. Paul, Minnesota, church service disruption rather than documenting it.