Pro-abortion activists disrupt Joel Osteen’s Pentecost Sunday service

Joe Bukuras By Joe Bukuras for CNA

Joel Osteen preaches at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, during the 8:30 a.m. Sunday service on June 5, 2022. Pro-abortion activists disrupted the 11 a.m. service later the same day. / Screenshot from Lakewood Church YouTube video

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 16:41 pm (CNA).

Pro-abortion activists disrupted Joel Osteen’s sermon at the televangelist’s Lakewood Church in Houston on Sunday, stripping down to their undergarments and shouting expletives and pro-abortion slogans before they were escorted out of the building.

The Twitter account TX4ABORTION posted videos of the incident, the latest in a series of pro-abortion demonstrations targeting churches in recent weeks. The demonstrations are in response to a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion they poise last month that suggested a conservative majority on the court to oveturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 that legalized abortion nationwide.

Julianne D’Eredita, 21, of Austin, Texas, told CNA in an interview Sunday that she led the group of 13 activists on behalf of the Austin-based affiliate of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, an activist group that calls for protests against pro-lifers and pro-life laws.

The demonstrators were detained by the police and told they were would be charged with a crime if they returned, D’Eredita said.

D’Eredita told CNA she attended Osteen’s church as a child and knows Osteen personally. While Osteen has expressed pro-life views in the past, the abortion issue does not play a prominent role in his ministry. D’Eredita said the activist group chose Osteen’s evangelical non-denominational church — whose church building can seat 16,800 — because its broadcasts attract millions of viewers around the world.

The congregation at televangelist Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church at the 8:30 a.m. service on June 5, 2022. Pro-abortion activists disrupted the 11 a.m. service later the same day. Screenshot from Lakewood Church YouTube video
The congregation at televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church at the 8:30 a.m. service on June 5, 2022. Pro-abortion activists disrupted the 11 a.m. service later the same day. Screenshot from Lakewood Church YouTube video

The incident began just as Osteen was starting his sermon at the 11 a.m. Pentecost Sunday service, the videos show.

As the congregation sat down, a woman stood up and pulled off her dress. Wearing only her underwear, she then began shouting pro-abortion slogans and expletives. Two other women proceeded to do the same, the videos show.

The women almost immediately were met by men wearing suits who began escorting them out of the building.

After the shouting began, Osteen told the congregation, “And we’ll wait just one moment here but God is good and he’s on the throne and he’s in control.”

The congregation cheered, and cheered louder when Osteen said, “So, we’ll just take one moment here and we’ll get started, but I know this, I’m glad to be in the house of the Lord with people of faith.”

“So thank you Lord for a good service,” he continued, speaking over the shouts of the protesters. “Alright y’all, we love everybody so we just thank the Lord that he’s in control and he has all things in his hand, and I think as long as I keep talking you can’t hear what everybody else is saying.”

Lakewood Church did not respond to CNA’s request for comment by time of publication.


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  1. These women are like howling, feral animals. Lacking in any sense of modesty, respect or decorum. They seem to think that the mere inconvenience of abortion service which could result from the Roe decision ( not even yet decided!!)gives them the right to disrupt a religious service of those who are exercising their American freedom of worship.Because the left thrives on suppressing the rights of others. Suppressing free speech is a favorite of theirs and suppressing religion by disruption or vandalism places second. They are disgusting. That they are “protesting” a decision which is not yet made, prompts one to speculate on their IQ level.

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