Posted on 04/30/2020 12:56:14 PM PDT by PBRCat
ROCKFORD - An Evangelical Christian church in Lena, Illinois, is suing Governor “JB” Pritzker for discriminating against churches and people of faith with his latest stay-at-home executive orders issuing and enforcing unconstitutional edicts during the coronavirus pandemic.
Thursday, Thomas More Society attorneys filed a federal complaint and motion for temporary restraining order on behalf of The Beloved Church and Pastor Steve Cassell with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Rockford.
Cassell and his church have been forced to shut down due to Pritzker’s Executive Orders. They were issued “cease and desist” orders and have been threatened with arrest and prosecution by local officials in Stephenson County, who are also named in the suit.
“The spiritual well-being of the people of Illinois is just as important as their temporal well-being during these dark times,” stated Thomas More Society Vice President and Senior Counsel Peter Breen. “Keeping liquor stores open but indefinitely shutting down churches and religious ministries violates our constitution and our most basic liberties. If liquor stores are ‘essential,’ so are churches.”
It is noted in the filing that so-called “Essential Businesses and Operations,” may have gatherings of larger than 10 people, while religious gatherings of any number are forbidden, on pain of criminal prosecution. The lawsuit reports that in his stay-at-home orders, Pritzker “declared churches and church ministries ‘non-essential’ and commanded them to shut down.”
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisreview.com ...
Did Pritzker flunk Con Law while studying for the bar?
Good
As I noted in the “Can Trump Overrule the Governors . . .” thread, FReedom/Liberty loving individual groups who believe that their Civil Rights are being abused and trampled, need to use the courts to sort the badass LIEberal Governors out RIGHT NOW, and then throw them out of office in the next election.
Suing Pritzker is the right thing to do!
If possible and legal in a specific LIEberal state, a recall is in order, fer shure! Fer shure!
And then, vote him out of office!
How do all these politicians think they will ever get elected again.
“Hey, vote for me. I wanted to make you my slave so I could protect you from yourself.”
Probably not, but now that he's in power he thinks it doesn't apply to him.
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