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MSNBC's Velshi: Trump Deeming Churches 'Essential' Could Violate 'Separation of Church and State'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/23/2020 12:12:30 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-issues-statement-religious-practice-and-social-distancing-0


21 posted on 05/23/2020 12:23:40 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Silly analyst.

Homofascists are all for shutting down churches and denying the basic human right to worship.

Atheists are intolerant. The no god God shouldn’t be promoted over any other religious view.


22 posted on 05/23/2020 12:24:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

right but the governors and local nazi health departments aren’t violating it- which it doesn’t exist anyways, other than government cant tell churches what to do.


23 posted on 05/23/2020 12:24:35 PM PDT by Hman528
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why do so many anti-MAGA people look like total dweebs?


 

24 posted on 05/23/2020 12:24:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He's talking about churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, etc., numbnutz.

25 posted on 05/23/2020 12:24:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Job 38-41 New International Version (NIV)
The Lord Speaks

38 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

2
“Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
3
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

4
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7
while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

8
“Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11
when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt’?

12
“Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,
13
that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?
14
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.
15
The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.

16
“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea
or walked in the recesses of the deep?
17
Have the gates of death been shown to you?
Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
18
Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.

19
“What is the way to the abode of light?
And where does darkness reside?
20
Can you take them to their places?
Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
21
Surely you know, for you were already born!
You have lived so many years!

22
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow
or seen the storehouses of the hail,
23
which I reserve for times of trouble,
for days of war and battle?
24
What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed,
or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
25
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain,
and a path for the thunderstorm,
26
to water a land where no one lives,
an uninhabited desert,
27
to satisfy a desolate wasteland
and make it sprout with grass?
28
Does the rain have a father?
Who fathers the drops of dew?
29
From whose womb comes the ice?
Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
30
when the waters become hard as stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen?

31
“Can you bind the chains[b] of the Pleiades?
Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
32
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons[c]
or lead out the Bear[d] with its cubs?
33
Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set up God’s[e] dominion over the earth?

34
“Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?
35
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36
Who gives the ibis wisdom[f]
or gives the rooster understanding?[g]
37
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
38
when the dust becomes hard
and the clods of earth stick together?

39
“Do you hunt the prey for the lioness
and satisfy the hunger of the lions
40
when they crouch in their dens
or lie in wait in a thicket?
41
Who provides food for the raven
when its young cry out to God
and wander about for lack of food?

39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
2
Do you count the months till they bear?
Do you know the time they give birth?
3
They crouch down and bring forth their young;
their labor pains are ended.
4
Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
they leave and do not return.

5
“Who let the wild donkey go free?
Who untied its ropes?
6
I gave it the wasteland as its home,
the salt flats as its habitat.
7
It laughs at the commotion in the town;
it does not hear a driver’s shout.
8
It ranges the hills for its pasture
and searches for any green thing.

9
“Will the wild ox consent to serve you?
Will it stay by your manger at night?
10
Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?
Will it till the valleys behind you?
11
Will you rely on it for its great strength?
Will you leave your heavy work to it?
12
Can you trust it to haul in your grain
and bring it to your threshing floor?

13
“The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
though they cannot compare
with the wings and feathers of the stork.
14
She lays her eggs on the ground
and lets them warm in the sand,
15
unmindful that a foot may crush them,
that some wild animal may trample them.
16
She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers;
she cares not that her labor was in vain,
17
for God did not endow her with wisdom
or give her a share of good sense.
18
Yet when she spreads her feathers to run,
she laughs at horse and rider.

19
“Do you give the horse its strength
or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
20
Do you make it leap like a locust,
striking terror with its proud snorting?
21
It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength,
and charges into the fray.
22
It laughs at fear, afraid of nothing;
it does not shy away from the sword.
23
The quiver rattles against its side,
along with the flashing spear and lance.
24
In frenzied excitement it eats up the ground;
it cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.
25
At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’
It catches the scent of battle from afar,
the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

26
“Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
and spread its wings toward the south?
27
Does the eagle soar at your command
and build its nest on high?
28
It dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;
a rocky crag is its stronghold.
29
From there it looks for food;
its eyes detect it from afar.
30
Its young ones feast on blood,
and where the slain are, there it is.”

40 The Lord said to Job:

2
“Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?
Let him who accuses God answer him!”

3 Then Job answered the Lord:

4
“I am unworthy—how can I reply to you?
I put my hand over my mouth.
5
I spoke once, but I have no answer—
twice, but I will say no more.”


26 posted on 05/23/2020 12:25:03 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: FreeReign
>>Deeming Churches 'Essential' Could Violate 'Separation of Church and State'

The FIRST amendment says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Velshi is a lying Stalinist

27 posted on 05/23/2020 12:26:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Of course the liberals don’t see the 1st amendment clause about “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.


28 posted on 05/23/2020 12:26:53 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...
The dude's a giant putz.

DANG!

29 posted on 05/23/2020 12:27:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: Dr. Sivana
The First Amendment guarantees Freedom of Religion because the practice of religion IS essential.
"The 1st Amendment violates the separation of church and state!"

30 posted on 05/23/2020 12:28:45 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I guess this guy has forgotten about the First Amendment.


31 posted on 05/23/2020 12:30:30 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, Give me Liberty or Give me Death!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh you dipwit. He deemed churches are essential to people! Not the State.


32 posted on 05/23/2020 12:32:18 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ali Veshi, an African-Canadian Mooselimb, former Al Jazeera propagandist, and now MSLSD stooge.

Yeah, Im gonna listen to what he has to say.
/s


33 posted on 05/23/2020 12:32:30 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: pepsi_junkie

What the First Amendment says, is that the government shall not INTERFERE in any way with the establishment of a religion, or the right of exercising that religion. State and local governments have interfered to a drastic degree with this very basic liberty. President Trump has merely said, stop the interference with the free exercise of religion.


34 posted on 05/23/2020 12:33:20 PM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That’s like saying including the Freedom of Religion clause in the Bill of Rights is a violation of church and state


35 posted on 05/23/2020 12:38:44 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Perfect example of why this is class is on lsdnbc


36 posted on 05/23/2020 12:45:10 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Rurudyne
A little more separation of the Press and the Democrats would help this nation immensely.

Some variant of that should go on a T-shirt. Or a billboard. Or the sky.

37 posted on 05/23/2020 12:45:28 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The whole point of the 2 clauses -— the “free exercise” and “no establishment” clauses-— of A1, is to protect the church FROM the state. Or, better, to set out the things the Sate absolutely cannot do.


38 posted on 05/23/2020 12:45:58 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Philosophy isa battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Wittgenstein)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Bwahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂 No it doesn’t
39 posted on 05/23/2020 12:46:32 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What actually violates it is the GOVERNMENT telling the CHURCHES what to do, how to do communion, how many people may attend, etc. Just would be stupendous to see the lefties occasionally live their beliefs.


40 posted on 05/23/2020 12:49:15 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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