Posted on 04/11/2020 4:40:44 PM PDT by abb
A Mississippi church is suing the metropolis of Greenville after law enforcement shut down its generate-in service this week in accordance with a metropolis ban on the observe amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom submitted the lawsuit Friday on behalf of the Temple Baptist Church. The submitting problems Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons’ April 7 executive purchase that prohibits drive-in church companies till a statewide shelter-in-location purchase is lifted.
The accommodate will come soon after 8 uniformed Greenville police officers reportedly issued $500 tickets to congregants who refused to go away a parking large amount the place a drive-in assistance was getting carried out Wednesday, the ADF stated in a statement saying the authorized problem.
The team contends that church congregants stayed in their cars and trucks with their home windows rolled up while listening to Pastor Arthur Scott preach from within the vacant Go Church developing.
“Government is clearly overstepping its authority when it singles out churches for punishment, particularly in a absurd vogue like this,” mentioned ADF senior counsel Ryan Tucker, director of the ADF Middle for Christian Ministries. “In Greenville, you can be in your car or truck at a travel-in restaurant, but you just cannot be in your car at a push-in church assistance. Which is not only nonsensical, it is unconstitutional, also.”
The Greenville Police Department and Simmons’ business did not promptly return calls from Fox News for remark Friday.
The church has been conducting the services for the earlier a few months in accordance with social distancing policies, the ADF claimed. Simmons’ ban orders church properties shut for in-particular person and generate-in expert services.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, makes no these types of mention in his shelter-in-spot order. Simmons met with community religious leaders Thursday to go over the ban and most agreed with his executive purchase, the town posted on its Fb account.
The Temple Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., submitted a legal challenge to Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons’ get banning travel-in church companies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Religious companies have develop into fairly of a contentious challenge as governments prohibit huge gatherings in an exertion to sluggish the spread of the virus.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, is suing top state Republican lawmakers immediately after they voted to overturn her executive order banning significant gatherings in churches.
The Pastor was on Tucker Carlson
https://www.facebook.com/charles.hamilton.336/videos/2815558101813318/?fref=mentions&__tn__=K-R
Charles E. Hamilton Jr. was live.
April 9 at 7:45 PM ·
Update from our service this evening:
Good move.
LOL! Good one!
How is parking in a church parking lot any more likely to spread the Wuhan China virus more than parking in the Walmart parking lot? There’s an awful lot of stupid running loose.
Sue these bastards in civil courts from the mayor to the City Council, the Chief of Police and any a$$hole in office who supported this bs.
The state elected officials need to be the ones answering for this. They must be the ones that gave the orders. The Constitution is pretty clear on the 1st. Amendment.
My FRiend, the stupid has been running loose for six weeks now. But we will survive, because we are Americans.
In my 70 years, I’ve had good days and bad days. Recently, there’s been a run of bad days.
But I must tell you that one of the better days I ever lived was January 20, 1981. Mrs abb & I were blessed to have been at Ronald Regan’s inaugural on that day. I heard President Reagan speak these words live. They’ve sustained me quite a few times.
“The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.
And, after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.”
Was interesting what happened in Durham NC last week. The mayor of Durham (see the bow-tied pipsqueak in this video —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDDG2LeTLzU) decided that all bottle shops and breweries had to close, not even allowed to do take out or drive through growlers.
However, state ABC stores (yeah, we have those here) were allowed to remain open. After backlash, they finally backed off.
The government weenies need to be stopped - they are just trying at this point to see what they can get away with.
I know that mayor. He publishes the Indy Week. He was part of the lynch mob that went after the Duke Lacrosse players. He will burn in Hell.
Wow - he’s worse that I thought. WTH would people accept any of his “pronouncements” (beside the fact, who would have voted for that squirt)?
Every cop from the chief down should be charged with sedition, fired and the chief with misprision of treason and the mayor with treason
Thanks - wish I lived in Durham so I could vote against him in the next election (ok, not really, Durham doesn’t appeal to me). Indy Week is beyond a left wing rag - it is in lefty nut case territory, did not realize this guy was that bad. He looks harmless, guess it shows what can happen when the left gets power.
Sue the cops personally, too. Strip them of their indemnity.
Bankrupt them.
Then do the same to whatever idiot ordered the cops to do this.
L
“Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, is suing top state Republican lawmakers immediately after they voted to overturn her executive order banning significant gatherings in churches.”
Sure feels like a civil war that is an inch away from needing ammo.
. Mrs abb & I were blessed to have been at Ronald Regan’s inaugural on that day. I heard President Reagan speak these words live. They’ve sustained me quite a few times.
“The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.
And, after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.”
“Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, is suing top state Republican lawmakers immediately after they voted to overturn her executive order banning significant gatherings in churches.”
What kind of F’d up world is it when the Exec sues the Legislature over a vote?
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