Seattle Mayor Backs Anti-Christian Riot: This Is the Face of the Left, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, May 29, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

I’ll never forget my first visit to Seattle, which will likely be my last. As you’re already aware if you’ve been reading The Brew the last few days, Antifa recently attacked a group of Christians gathered at a public worship event — and the mayor defended not the Christians, but Antifa.

I was there in 2022 to take part in a forum with Eric Metaxas at the wonderful Westgate Chapel a few miles outside the city. We stayed downtown in the Arctic Club, a lovely relic of more civilized times built by retired polar explorers. We dined at a steakhouse with people from the Discovery Institute, the organization that fights Darwinian materialism and promotes science-based research on Intelligent Design. It was a really wonderful evening, which took a sudden, disturbing dark turn.

After dinner, we got ready to walk the four city blocks back to the Arctic Club. But we heard loud chanting and drums beating, as if some hunter-gatherer tribe had taken over the streets — because one had.  …

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