Posted on 05/04/2020 4:35:31 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A Kansas City phased reopening guideline requiring churches to keep “lists” of attendees, has alarmed many who see it as an infringement on religious liberty and privacy.
In the policy issued by Mayor Quinton Lucas, houses of worship are treated with the same restrictions as “non-essential” businesses in terms of keeping records of who attends a service, or even anyone who enters the building.
“Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined Nazi-like measures designed to surveil, track and spy upon what was once a FREE American people,” Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said. “Yet that is exactly what Kansas City’s misguided government officials are now demanding.”
Liberty Counsel, a law firm that handles religious liberty cases, tells the Todd Starnes Radio Show that they are representing several churches that allege their constitutional rights are being violated.
“I am running out of adjectives to describe how completely insane the tyrannical abuses launched by state governors and local officials against pastors and churches are becoming,” Staver said in a statement. “It is as if these leaders never bothered to so much as glance at the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend. They seem to be governing from some make-believe, dystopian viewpoint.”
The new policy states “In-person religious gatherings (including weddings and funerals) may resume, subject to the 10/10/10 rule (if held inside) or limited to 50 people outside, provided social distancing precautions are followed and event organizers maintain records of all attendees.”
But it is not the limit on people that has drawn the most concern, but the record-keeping. The new rule requires all churches to “record the names, contact information, and approximate entry/exit time of all customers who are on-premises for more than 10 minutes.”
This sounds scary for sure.
It reminds me of Communist countries where you could get killed just for visiting churches.
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities brutally suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on State interests. Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated for the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union. However, most religions were never officially outlawed.
The state advocated the destruction of religion, and to achieve this goal, it officially denounced religious beliefs as superstitious and backward. The Communist Party destroyed churches, synagogues, and mosques, ridiculed, harassed, incarcerated and executed religious leaders, flooded the schools and media with anti-religious teachings, and it introduced a belief system called “scientific atheism,” with its own rituals, promises and proselytizers. According to some sources, the total number of Christian victims under the Soviet regime has been estimated to range around 12 to 20 million.
China has the world’s greatest irreligious population, and the Chinese government and Communist Party is officially atheist. Despite limitations on certain forms of religious expression and assembly, religion is not banned, and religious freedom is nominally protected under the Chinese constitution.
Churches are also protected under our constitution too, but with the lates totalitarian changes it seems our constitution is no longer respected.
Stepn Fetchit was there too
Yeah the Founders would be shooting these rats. Why don’t gun owners start doing it now?
Democrats when given the slightest touch of power...the mask slips, and the true dictator shines forth.
The governor of Washington says if the closures don’t stop the spread of the China virus, they will be extended. So the people have to stop the virus or face starvation. The Ukraine had Stalin, Washington state has Inslee. I’m starting to wonder if this about defeating Trump or hatred of America. The left has never had such an opportunity to bring America to its knees. If Obama was still president, it would truly be all over for us.
And Jack Meoff
ALL DEMOCRATS OPPOSE VOTER ID it lessens voter FRAUD
Sure. Just as soon as we get the addresses of those wanting the lists.
Christian clergy were a vital force in the American revolution. Today’s ministers are government lapdogs. Not excluding the Bible-believing.
ALL normal news - national, Kansas & Kansas City - media seems to have made a black out of this story.
Some have had the audacity to protest and have been thoroughly ridiculed and lambasted and as one critic so eloquent phrased it."The punk needs to be shot". And the police that arrested him was cheered just as the Germans cheered their police as they rounded up the Jews and put them in the boxcars in Germany in the 1940-42.
Mark.
I'll bet Mosques are open (remember in NY, deBlasio's grab-and-go bags for curbside pickup for Ramadan, where is the ACLU on separation of mosque and state?), and Synagogues are closed. Can someone check?
yes, that’s the plan, it’s to track your movements. If you make too many stops, I guess they’re going to arrest you for something, not sure what.
Communists do the same thing everywhere. KC Mo is like all other cities these days, white men and especially conservatives are pretty much excluded from public office, so you get Commies elected by the inner city.
I agree. Hell with these little Hitler’s and their armies of rats ready to drop a dime on someone or shoot someone.
Imo, anyone using the term “misguided” in relation to the degeneracy and depravity of the left on any issue needs their adult card revoked.
It’s not “misguided”. It *is* their ideology. This is just the beginning of what *all* those who follow that ideology have intended since that ideology’s inception.
They brag about it in public, every time they talk about life or politics.
But we don’t want to hear it because then we might have to recognize it for what it is. And then we’d have to decide whether to officially submit or let the blood start flowing in the streets.
There Is. No. Coexistence possible with the left. And there is no running away from it. It’s a binary solution set.
Destroy it.
or
Be Destroyed by it.
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