By Chad Groening, Billy Davis, OneNewsNow, April 6, 2021
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with comments from Pastor Pawlowski to The Daily Caller.
A pastor is being praised as a hero for angrily confronting Canadian authorities who had entered a Calgary church to observe if the congregation was following the government’s COVID-19 restrictions.
The two-minute confrontation, which has gone viral thanks to a video recording, shows five mask-wearing government officials being told to “Get out!” by Artur Pawlowski, a fiery street preacher-pastor whose feuds with local authorities stretch back more than a decade.
In the video, he calls them “Nazis” and “Gestapo” for coming on Easter weekend, and tells them to only return if they come back with a warrant.
The group eventually backs down and walks out of the door while the pastor, still angry and loud, follows behind them as they leave down a sidewalk. …
Reacting to the confrontation, Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel points out that Pastor Pawlowski is a Polish-born immigrant. That means the man’s angry descriptions of “Nazi” and “Gestapo” are not without meaning. …
Bishop Paul Lambert offers communion to his wife Sallie at the consecration ceremony at the St. Michaels and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas, Saturday, July 12, 2008. Canon Lambert become Bishop Suffragan Lambert at the ceremony.