Posted on 04/09/2020 7:39:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky says churches will not be allowed to hold drive-in services on Easter Sunday.
Mayor Greg Fischer, a Democrat, said he made his decision with a heavy heart.
Our job is to deny the virus, the mayor told television station WDRB. If we dont do that, more lives will be lost. I know its tough I just cant allow (drive-thru church services) to happen.
The Courier-Journal reports that the mayor wants congregants who belong to a church that is defying Fischers request to contact their minister or the citys 311 line.
The mayor actually wants Christians to rat out their pastors, folks.
Its not really practical or safe to accommodate drive up services taking place in our community, the mayor said during a video address. Think about this on Sunday morning there would be hundreds of thousands of people driving around our community.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, also a Democrat, said he supports leaders across the state who are banning churches from holding drive-in services, the newspaper reported.
This is not the time to put large numbers of people in the same space, the mayor said. That would just create a tinder box for the virus. It creates way too many opportunities for people to contract the disease.
Steven Webb, the pastor of the Dixie Valley Church of God said he understands the mayors edict.
Scripture tells us that God tells us that we should obey the authority that he has placed over us, he told television station WLKY. And so for us it is no question that if the governor and the mayor has asked for us to do that then we should obey that.
But a good many people around the city are not happy with the mayors decision.
How come drive-in church services are being cancelled this week in Louisville to flatten the curve, but drive-thrus and drive-up ice cream stores are open as well as liquor stores and abortion clinics, one person wrote on social media.
This is our mayor, wrote another citizen, Abortion clinics open, but no to drive-in church. What is wrong with this picture?
Thats a fair question.
The EMW Womens Surgical Center, which advertises itself as the states only licensed abortion clinic, is open for business at this very moment.
Id say the risk of death in an abortion clinic is far greater than attending a drive-in Easter Sunday church service.
Betcha, cop run through the parked vehicles, videotape all license plates. Run tags through state database and suspend all tags and licenses and fine. Issue warrants, etc.
Over 50 years ago I can remember going to mass at a drive in movie theater. You took the big old speaker and hung it on your car window. They set up a stage up front where they placed the altar right in front of the movie screen.
conspiracy to exercise the former Constitutional right to free exercise of religion
We live in an enforced atheistic tyranny now. The Constitution, or at least several explicit ancient civil liberties of the people, no longer exist. For now, we still can speak freely over these wires, but even that right soon may cease. These former United States of America soon shall be forever recognized as a Communist regime. The day of the demise of the last vestige of liberty on this planet is soon at hand.
Mayor Fischer is pretty much a left wing loon. I live in an adjoining county and am glad I don’t have to put up with his idiocy.
Something is very wrong in Kentucky
Tennessee and Kentucky have a long common border, very similar demographics, topology, and heritage and yet Tennessee has very stable US state governmental financial statistics, and Kentucky has one of the worst.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/fiscal-stability
And this has been true in TN under
both Democratic and Republican leadership, consistently
OK, I am thinking about it and my thinking is; How is this different from *normal*? Does it add to contagion danger? NO! How would this 1st Amendment RIGHT, Religion and Assembly, further endanger the public good? What virus is exchanged between cars?
The Mayor and Governor are WRONG and where is the 'vaunted' ACLU here?
KY people need to restore their rights in light of this
Looks like the pastor already caved.
Given all the other activities considered "essential," there is no reason why churches couldn't do something that feels reasonably normal. This mayor is over-stepping their bounds...this isn't about protecting people, it's about controlling them.
The government
The police
Even your neighbors
willingly and happily stripped you of all your rights
...Because....Its for your own good.
This should be re-posted every single day, forever.
Can we get Barr the Pied Piper on this? Last night he told Laura he won’t stand for discrimination against Christians.
If they show up on bicycles, Mayor Bikepath is fine with it.
He's just another "whistledick politician."
Don't expect anything from Barr and you won't be disappointed.
Find the city line and hold it in the county. Problem solved.
You are dead on, I keep reading about Democrats, doing this and that, just to ban ALL things Christian, but allowing isam and anything Dem supported to remain open.
What is there about a church service that is NOT an “essential service”?
Totally unconstitutional.
Totally.
The First amendment doesn’t say you have freedom of religion IF YOU AREN’T SICK...
It doesn’t say you have freedom of speech IF YOU AREN’T SICK...
It doesn’t say you have freedom of assembly IF YOU AREN’T SICK...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suspect he thinks people will get out of their cars and do some socializing with friends they haven’t seen in a month.
Our church is having a drive in sunrise service Sunday and I am hoping to see the people I have been missing. I am not going to get out of the car. No, not in KY.
Personally I think he has no legal basis for such a ban, and if any pastor is charged with holding a service, it will not be church member who turns him in. It’s far more likely that some sniveling libs get in their cars and go looking for somebody to rat out.
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