A Virginia church echoed the sentiment of President Donald Trump this week after its message board appeared with a message of love for America.
The sign outside Friendship Baptist Church in Appomattox, Virginia, reads: “America: Love it or Leave It.”
Pastor E. W. Lucas started Friendship Baptist Church in 1979 and has been sharing messages on the sign out front for years.
“I thought I was going to make some remarks regarding the situation in Washington,” Pastor Lucas told ABC13. “It just came to me… America, I love it. If you don’t love it, leave it.”
“People that feel hard about our president and want to down the president, and down the country and everything, they ought to go over there and live in these other countries for a little while,” Pastor Lucas added.
The message displayed on the church sign comes just days after President Trump stated, “If you’re not happy here, then you can leave.”
Pastor Lucas says he will leave the sign for “a while” and insisted that he is not afraid to “hurt somebody’s feelings.”
“Since we’ve had favorable comments on it, I thought I’d just leave it a while,” Pastor Lucas said. “Preachers, by and large, today, are afraid they’re gonna hurt somebody’s feelings, and when I get in the pulpit, I’m afraid I won’t hurt somebody’s feelings.
In a series of tweets Sunday, President Trump slammed the Democrats’ so-called “Squad,” insisting that they go back and fix the places they came from before attempting to tell the rest of America how to operate.
With a vote of 240-187 on Tuesday, the House passed a resolution to condemn what Democrats consider to be President Trump’s “racist” tweets.
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