11/09/08 A group of Bash Back! members infiltrate Mount Hope church chanting, "It's OK to be gay" and "Jesus was a homo", toss pamphlets, glitter, and condoms into the air. ref
05/13/09 ADF files a federal lawsuit against Bash Back! as a whole, 13 individuals and 20 John and Jane Does who ADF is in the process of identifying. ref1, ref2
04/10 ADF subpoenas Schwartz of the Lansing City Pulse magazine for information regarding the protest. ref
03/23/11 Mount Hope subpoenas Riseup Networks to provide account information related to the group Bash Back!. ref
07/11/11 U.S. District Court Judge Robert Holmes Bell issued a permanent injunction against Bash Back! and Bash Back! Lansing permanently forbidding these groups and individuals from protesting, harassing any places of worship in the U.S. and from entering Mount Hope Church or International Outreach Ministry's property without their consent. ref
07/20/11 District Judge Richard Jones orders Mount Hope church to pay $28,181.10 in attorney's fees for ordering Riseup (an email service provider) to produce the email records in a "baseless" subpoena. PDF ref p.8
11/26/12 The three judge panel on the 9th Circuit reverses the ruling by District Judge Richard Jones that imposed sanctions on Mount Hope church for issuing a "baseless" subpoena. ref, PDF
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law." Galations 5:22,23