Posted on 03/21/2021 3:50:01 PM PDT by lightman
A week ago, health department officials ordered a Baltimore-based megachurch to close its doors over coronavirus-related violations...
Since then, however, operations at Greater Grace World Outreach Church in Northeast Baltimore’s Frankford neighborhood have largely carried on as normal...
On Wednesday, Baltimore police stopped by with health officials, but a service that night carried on to its conclusion. All was quiet Sunday morning, with no police presence.
About a hundred worshippers at a time gathered inside the church for Sunday services, and many did not wear masks. One section of the church was roped off for social distancing and mask-wearing, and about 30 people sat there at a time. Masks are required in all indoor spaces in Baltimore, with few exceptions, such as if individuals are eating or drinking...
Meanwhile, city agencies will continue enforcing the mayor’s coronavirus executive order...
During his sermons Sunday, Schaller opined about the pandemic, adding that he feels the larger crisis affecting Americans is related to mental health...
“Where’s the church? It’s shut down. People are afraid. People are gonna get sick, they’re gonna die,” Schaller said. “Shut it down — no.”
Schaller lamented that the national dialogue is focused on the coronavirus and not viruses transmitted through unprotected sex, sometimes between gay people, such as HIV.
“I never hear about it,” he said. “All I hear about is masks.”
On Dec. 13, the day the city health department issued its first citation to Greater Grace, Schaller expressed frustration about people fearful of the virus.
He asked everyone in the crowd that day who had contracted the virus to stand, saying he had also contracted COVID-19. In just the first few rows visible on the livestream camera, about a dozen people could be seen rising to their feet.
“Isn’t there herd immunity or something?” Schaller said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Memo to health department officials: do not try to countermand Almighty God’s third commandment
Schaller has previously spoken out against gay rights from the pulpit, attacking churches “with a rainbow flag,” for instance.
I thought that churches (religion in general) would be thriving in this environment.
We were there - mrs. jimfree and I attended the 9:00 a.m. service. We sat in the larger mask-optional section. A distance/mask-required section was set up to our left. Don’t you love choice?
The church is not local to us as we are inside the other beltway, but it was a pleasant drive. Might indeed go back.
What about mosques? You never hear of anything happening to them.
Because nothing does
Good for you!
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