Posted on 06/18/2020 5:14:31 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Letitia James, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are using coronavirus restrictions as a "blatant double standard" to discriminate against people of faith, using threats of fines and criminal prosecution, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. “Why is a large worship gathering deemed more dangerous than a mass protest, full of shouting, arm-waving people in close proximity to one another?” Christopher Ferrara, Thomas More Society special counsel, said in a statement to Fox News. “These orders, both the emergency stay-home and reopening plan declarations, clearly discriminate against houses of worship," Ferrara added. "They are illegally content-based, elaborate, arbitrary and pseudo-scientific." Among many violations cited, the group points out de Blasio ignoring social distancing and the 10-person limit when he didn't wear a face mask on June 4 while attending and addressing a mass political gathering at New York City's Cadman Plaza. Days later, in Williamsburg, Hasidic Jewish children were kicked out of a park by a police officer enforcing Cuomo and de Blasio's 10-person limit on "non-essential gatherings." In April, de Blasio threatened the Jewish community -- which had a string of attacks this past winter -- with arrests and prosecutions for "illegal" mass religious gatherings after police in Williamsburg broke up the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Mertz. “My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed,” de Blasio wrote in a tweet. "I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period." He was forced to apologize for targeting the Jewish community as a whole but doubled down on his remarks, calling it "tough love."
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As far as the RCs clergy goes, you failed to excommunicate this mass murderer, not only of new borns and fetuses but the elderly as well. You let it get out of hand as did Democrats.
Well, this is encouraging. De Blasio having the playground in the Hasidic neighborhood welded shut may have been the final straw.
SCOTUS will tell them the government is right.
That actually happened. There’s a thread here on FR. I’m not at a real computer or I’d like to it.
And at least de Nazio didn’t weld it shut with children inside.
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He’s the north end of a southbound horse.
He sure is. Every day I wonder how any New Yorker can stand the guy. He almost makes Dinkins look good.
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