Lordship considers itself a ' free church,' a church that declines to seek the sort of nonprofit status that can limit making political endorsements from the pulpit.
He literally wrote a theme song for the American Redoubt, celebrating a 'place where God, guns and freedom reigns.' He not only pastors Lordship, he started a military surplus store nearby called Redoubt Surplus and Tactical. 'The American Redoubt is a stronghold, it's the last bastion for God, country, liberty, Constitution, Second Amendment and homeschooling,' Pastor Warren Mark Campbell told CBC News in 2016. 'Lordship Church is different.'įirst, a quick primer: Lordship is a proud member of the Idaho Redoubt movement. 'According to the SPLC, most of Idaho’s hate groups proclaim racist or anti-Semitic views,' the Statesman proclaims. The newspaper suggests that, perhaps, the Lordship Church in Coeur d'Alene was being unfairly maligned. That's the question asked by two recent Idaho Statesman articles and an Idaho Statesman video.
Why in the world would the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a national civil rights organization, put a small, relatively unknown Idaho church on its 'Hatewatch' list? But the Inlander dug deeper into what the church's pastor has actually been preaching. The Idaho Statesman has been repeatedly skeptical of the Southern Poverty Law Center's claims that the Coeur d'Alene-based Lordship Church is a hate group.
