Posted on 04/09/2020 8:21:42 PM PDT by rintintin
The mayor of Louisville, Ky., is not allowing churches to hold drive-in services on Easter Sunday, a strategy other congregations have used amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On Fire Christian Church, represented by First Liberty Institute, sent a letter Thursday to Mayor Greg Fischer, who believes "more lives will be lost" if he doesn't stop the services, urging him to change his mind.
The Louisville church has been holding drive-in services for weeks in line with CDC guidelines, but is now being told to stop just before Easter.
"The prohibition of drive-in church services goes beyond those guidelines ... and unlawfully targets houses of worship," Roger Byron, senior counsel at First Liberty, said. "Many churches across the nation are holding drive-in services to balance the spiritual and physical health of their communities."
The mayor reportedly encouraged citizens to contact the city's 311 number about a house of worship that plans to hold a drive-in service during the restriction, which First Liberty argues is against both state and federal law.
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You are correct. That tells it all. OT - When are we going to have the all out war to rid out nation of these anti-American clowns
Meet anyway. The dirty little secret is that they operate on fear and little else. They count on fear based compliance.
When a mass of people ignore them peacefully, they have few options. Any huge use of force like mass arrests of church members praying gives them what the call “bad optics”. That scares them to death.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Why should Fischer be scared? It’s not like Louisville’s EVER had a Republican mayor.
There should be allowances for meeting in public parks.
Quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958
"… The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
Patriots DO NOT grovel before Governors and ask “permission” to exercise their First Amendment rights!
April 20, 2019 by RadicalDiscipleship
The Resurrection is Against the Law
An excerpt from Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s classic Seasons of Faith and Conscience (1991).
The sealing of the tomb is, I believe, notoriously misunderstood. I grew up with a Sunday School notion that to seal the tomb was a matter of hefting the big stone and cementing it tight. The seal, in my mind’s eye, was something like first-century caulking–puttying up the cracks to keep the stink in. Not so. This is a legal seal. Cords would be strung across the rock and anchored at each end with clay. To move the stone would break the seal and indicate tampering.
The event conspicuously echoes the story of Daniel sealed in the den of lions. “And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel” (Daniel 6:18). As there, this is a legal lock on the tomb door–not air tight, but politically tight. To move the stone and break the seal is a civil crime. The resurrection is against the law.
The seal is also a recurring theme in the book of Revelation. Remember the scroll of history sealed with seven seals? Only One is worthy to break them and look upon or unveil the truth: that One is the Lamb who was slain. The seal is a claim of ownership and authority. Its meaning in Revelation is at least that God in Christ reigns sovereign over all history and in all events.
Caesar, in Pilate, on the other hand, violently disputes the claim. He has set his seal of approval on Jesus’ death, and now he guarantees it with troops. Secured by security forces. When the seal is broken in the resurrection, it stands among the signs that the power of the powers (death in all its forms) has been broken. The dominion of political authority–especially inflated, aggressive–and imperial authority has been cut to the heart.
Or ever will.
“Kentucky church asks Louisville mayor to reverse ban on drive-in Easter service”
if he refuses, they should do it anyway and dare the son of a bitch to arrest the lot of them ...
Have the church service. Be safe, follow guidelines, stay in cars & 6’ apart. Let the Police arrest the group. The you have a religious freedom & freedom of assembly constitutional case.
An important case, as what are the limits of ‘emergency powers?”
We might want to have a test case before the next 24x7 emergency that never ends.
Definitely Civil Disobedience time. God must be first served!
Many of the churches are going to have their service at a drive-in movie place in Neighboring Oldham Country. The idiot, boring, STUPID mayor in Louisville has zero authority there.
This is just ridiculous. We’re supposed to be SLOWING the spread, not STOPPING it. There must be some reasonableness brought to our response.
“Many of the churches are going to have their service at a drive-in movie place in Neighboring Oldham Country. The idiot, boring, STUPID mayor in Louisville has zero authority there.”
LOVE IT!
“This is just ridiculous. We’re supposed to be SLOWING the spread, not STOPPING it. There must be some reasonableness brought to our response.”
indeed ... last night on Hannity Mark Levin made the excellent point that everyone “cowering in place” prevents the “herd immunity” from happening that the “experts” keep yammering about, and that when that ends, even more people will get sick ...
Why ask? Just do it. They can’t arrest everyone.
Bad news... As I suspected, our Democratic Governor has stepped in to make trouble. They will record the license plates of ALL attendees, and enforce 14 day quarantines on all of them.
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