REVOLT in Indiana as patriots pick medical liberty activist as GOP nominee for lieutenant governor!

Outspoken pastor Micah Beckwith headlined rallies and wrote more than 4,000 letters to help people get religious exemptions from corporate vaccine mandates in 2021 and 2022

Micah Beckwith, left, with Sen. Mike Braun, center, and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, right.

At the Indiana GOP state convention in Indianapolis on Saturday, delegates nominated Micah Beckwith — a pastor and citizen activist who was one of the star speakers at rallies for medical liberty in the state, as their candidate for lieutenant governor — rejecting the candidate that Sen. Mike Braun, the nominee for governor, had chosen as his running mate.

In his barnburner speech just before the vote, Beckwith railed against the Republican leadership’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, telling delegates that he wrote 4,500 letters for people desperately seeking help getting a religious exemption to their employer’s vaccine mandate so they could keep their jobs and told of a couple he knew who were distraught after their small business was declared non-essential by the governor in 2020, saying over the next year they lost everything, including their business and their home, and that at the end of the year the man then took his own life.

More than 40 activists stood with him on the stage, flanking him as he delivered the speech to the 1800 delegates.

When the votes were finally tallied, Beckwith had 891, compared to 828 for Julie McGuire, the state legislator Braun had picked for his lieutenant governor.

In the days and weeks leading up to the convention, delegates were deluged with colorful mailers promoting McGuire as Braun’s pick to be his running mate. Many of the top elected Republicans in the state, including State Treasurer Daniel Elliot and Secretary of State Diego Morales, endorsed her.

But nothing could stop Micah Beckwith, who’d previously run for Congress in the 5th Congressional District and who’d become well known in the state as an outspoken conservative activist who often hosts pro-freedom events at his church, Life Church in Noblesville, north of Indianapolis. He also leads the Hoosier Leadership Series and is the Indiana head of the group U.S. Term Limits.

But it was on the issue of medical liberty that he became known to a wider group of patriots in the state, who were appalled that their so-called “deep red” state had imposed a statewide mask mandate, closed churches, declared tens of thousands of small businesses “non-essential” and pushed the Covid-19 vaccines on babies as young as six months of age.

On June 10, 2021, Micah Beckwith was the first speaker at the Rally for Medical Freedom on the campus of Indiana University — a rally that kicked off a legal fight, led by attorney Jim Bopp, against the university’s outrageous vaccine mandate, which was backed up by threats that student meal cards would be turned off and all student online accounts shut down immediately if they dared show up to school in August not having gotten the Covid vaccine. Faculty and staff of the university were threatened with immediate termination.

In his opening that day, Beckwith talked about God as a God of freedom, leading a prayer asking the crowd to “walk in that freedom and defend that freedom today.”

Later that summer, he gave a rousing speech from the steps of the Statehouse building in Indianapolis, telling the hundreds of people who’d gathered that he would be the “tip of the spear” in the fight for medical freedom.

Beckwith also testified before the Indiana General Assembly on a bill to guarantee that employees in the state could get exemptions from corporate vaccine mandates.

As governor, Mike Braun will be making most of the decisions, but it’s unlikely that Micah Beckwith will stay silent on issues that matter most.

On medical liberty, Beckwith has committed to help repeal a law — SB 4 — that seemed to reward the Indiana Department of Health for its disastrous handling of the pandemic by giving the department vast new powers over county health departments and an additional $200 million to enforce a host of new requirements on them.

In a candidate survey he filled out for the group Hoosiers for Medical Liberty, he also committed to ensuring that churches, businesses and citizens are not subject to unconstitutional mandates.