CA Pastor Reclassifies Church as 'Strip Club' So That It Can Open for Services During COVID

The Federalist Papers ^ | November 27, 2020 | C. Douglas Golden

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Their petition isn’t tied to strip clubs, but instead to the stringent guidelines religious congregations have operated under since COVID-19 restrictions were first issued. Meanwhile, liquor stores and cannabis dispensaries, inter alia, have been allowed to keep their doors open.

“For over nine months, the Governor has continued to discriminate against Churches’ religious worship services while permitting myriad nonreligious entities to continue to gather without numerical restrictions inside the same house of worship and in other external comparable congregate assemblies,” Harvest Rock Church argued in its filing.

For good measure, the filing also referenced California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s field trip to a Napa Valley restaurant and said he had been “publicly encouraging and supporting mass protestors, rioters, and looters to gather without numerical restriction in blatant disregard for his own Orders.”

[SkyDancer]

I looked for the Babylon Bee headline.

[Intar]

Now that’s thinking outside the box...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Satire must be nearly impossible to write these days!

[A Navy Vet]

Love it! Did they think of this go-around before or after the USSC ruling that Cuomo over-stepped Constitutional religious protections. Sorry didn’t catch the date.

[SkyDancer]

Some of the “real” stories you just can’t make up. I can’t help reading news stuff without thinking of the BB.

[cyclotic]

Meanwhile, most American churches just say to their Governor overlords “Thank you sir, ay I have another restriction.”

It’s a good thing we don’t rely as much on rail transportation these days. Just sayin

[Disambiguator]

I think it has been for some time.

[lurk]

It reads like satire. It’s dishonest.

[ZOOKER]

The offertory should be entertaining.
And add a saxophone player to the praise band.

Seriously, if they don't want their rules mocked, they shouldn't make stupid, unfair, unconstitutional rules.

[GreyFriar]

And did they change the Rosary to “Hail Mary, full of grapes” as additional proof?

[unlearner]

“I looked for the Babylon Bee headline.”

If it were Babylon Bee, it would tell us that a judge ruled that a church could not pose as a strip club because politicians would begin attending by mistake.

[ealgeone]

Saw this on OANN.

[bunkerhill7]

Matt. 27:28 “They stripped off Jesus clothes.”

There fixed it.

[bunkerhill7]

Jesus’ clothes

[RetiredArmy]

AIN’T GOD GREAT!!! He pulled one over on satan’s demons in politicians clothing, IF they haven’t stripped them off yet. Go git em pastor!!! Toss a shoe in the air and shake your BIBLE high!!!

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

This was discussed on FR about 4 weeks ago.

Nice. Have services and welcome sinners to repent.

5.56mm

[GOPJ]

I looked for the Babylon Bee headline.

Me too...

[KarlInOhio]

The Babylon Bee had Clever Churchgoers Avoid Arrest By Disguising Themselves As Rioters back in June.

[deport]

Heck they are playing football, basketball, etc which require
contact with other bodies. Some are allowing public attendance.
At least churches could use some type spacing.