Headline next week:
“RESULT: 1,200 California Clergy Arrested for Violating Gov. Newsom’s Perfectly Rational Order for Saving Children”
“RESULT: 1,200 California Clergy and 120,000 Parishioners Arrested for Violating Gov. Newsom’s Perfectly Rational Order for Saving Children, 121,200 Violent Felons Released to Make Room, Child Molesters Given Priority”
If Gov. Newsom arrests those pastors, at least they will be in good historical company.
In 1774, James Madison wrote to a friend in Pennsylvania about troubling developments in Virginia. The “diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution” was raging in the colony. “There are at this [time] . . . not less than 5 or 6 well meaning men in [jail] for publishing their religious sentiments. . . . Pray for liberty of conscience to revive among us.”
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-america-put-pastors-in-prison