Don Lemon Celebrating sixtieth Birthday in Los Angeles Amid Rising Church Protest Fallout

Don Lemon has had a whole lot of issues to emphasize about currently, however his sixtieth birthday is not one in all them … he advised us he is celebrating the milestone with the last word technique to calm down!

The large day is not till Sunday, however the journalist tells TMZ … he began the festivities Friday night time with a dinner at a pal’s home in Beverly Hills. Then, it is on to the NAACP Picture Awards tonight, the place he is being honored with 4 awards, adopted by dinner with husband Tim Malone.

And on the precise day? He tells us it will be a “spa day in a beach town.”

Cannot blame the man for wanting to only relax. His birthday comes on the heels of him being named in a lawsuit by an alleged parishioner of The Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota for allegedly disrupting a service final month.

Keep in mind … Lemon coated a protest at The Cities Church final month as demonstrators went to confront pastor David Easterwood, who’s a Minneapolis ICE official. He ended up getting arrested and charged with federal crimes — to which he pleaded not responsible.

The lawsuit claims Don acted with the protesters and triggered the parishioner “severe emotional distress, fear, anxiety, and trauma.”

As we reported … Don insists he was merely exercising his First Modification proper as a reporter to doc the church demonstration, shining a lightweight on the occasion as a journalist, and later vowed to not be silenced.