A Baptist Texan was removed from church membership in recent days after being disciplined for his opinion on immigration policy.

No, really: This actually happened.

A policy difference was apparently reason enough for this man to be kicked out of fellowship with his church.

Here's The Blaze on Daniel Keene's story:

Daniel Keene did not expect a post on X to derail his life.

The small-business owner posted a video of an Indian block party taking over an entire street of his North Texas suburb and expressed his frustration at the rapid demographic and cultural changes sweeping through large swaths of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

'We have to cancel the H-1Bs. I want my kids to grow up in America. Not India,' he wrote in the since-deleted post.

The man had his business, Boundaries Coffee, targeted and harassed, he was kicked out of his Crossfit gym, and was disciplined and removed from a "conservative" Southern Baptist church for saying that he - wait for it - wants his American kids to grow up in America and not India.

For opposing things like this:

After his initial viral post, which showed a street near his home covered with Indians, Daniel was examined by the elders at his church.

The elders at the Trails Church called him about his initial post, telling him to repent and that the post was 'uncharitable.' Keene, who deleted the post shortly after it went viral due to the stress it was causing his family, did not disavow his position on immigration and the H-1B visa in particular.

He said that's when problems with the church really escalated.

Keene and his wife — who was eight months pregnant at the time — were called in for a meeting with 'all the elders and staff who could be there,' he recalled. This time, they weren't just concerned about one post. 'They just hammered me for ... hours,' he said.

The elders had apparently gone through the last three years of Keene's X account, looking for problematic posts. Keene said they brought up two posts that they found 'concerning.'

Two social media posts in the last three years they found "concerning."

Not sure that's what Jesus was talking about in Matthew 18, guys!

According to Keene, they wanted him to apologize for his original post showing the Indian block party on his street and abandon his position on Indian immigration. While he respected their right to disagree with him, Keene told Blaze News he did not think apologizing for the post was appropriate ...

When asked how serious this offense was, the elders told Keene he was on 'the path of discipline,' meaning he would be removed from membership if he continued on his present course ...

They are 'basically saying, "We don't think you're a Christian any more because you haven't repented of a sin,"' he [Keene] said.

It's important to note here that Matt Boswell, the hymn writer who has penned and performed many well known, popular, and very solid hymns including "His Mercy is More," "Christ the True and Better," and "Almost Home," is the lead elder at the Trails Church.

And the church which he oversees deemed Daniel Keene to be in sin worthy of church discipline because he doesn't ... support the H-1B visa program?

Keene, after the hours-long inquiry, made the decision to poke the bear.

Keene left the meeting still confused. Shortly after, a friend sent him an episode of 'The King's Hall' podcast discussing immigration and H-1B visas. Keene found the episode insightful and posted a clip of it along with the following questions: 'What would get you in more trouble at your church? Significant doctrinal error on the Trinity? Or opposing immigration to the harm of your neighbor?'

Here's the post:

That earned him another phone call from his church!

Keene was then formally asked to leave the church.

Meg Basham had measured thoughts on the story:

Ethnic hatred, and hatred of anyone, is, of course, sinful. But disagreements on immigration policy? That's worthy of excommunication?

Consider: Daniel Keene was removed from church membership for almost word-for-word sharing this sentiment with Charlie Kirk:

We're living in the wildest of times.

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