Posted on 04/14/2020 6:12:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
Suits challenging COVID-19 orders that ban group church services are proliferating. Sacramento Bee reported yesterday:
A group of Inland Empire pastors is suing California Gov. Gavin Newsom in federal court, alleging that his administration is “criminalizing the free exercise of religion” with stay-at-home directives that have prevented people from attending church services....
One of the plaintiffs is Dean Moffatt, a Riverside County pastor who was fined $1,000 for holding a Palm Sunday church service, according to the complaint filed.
KRQE News reported yesterday:
An Albuquerque [New Mexico] megachurch is now suing the state claiming the governor violated the first amendment that protects the freedom of religion. Specifically, it’s focused on the church’s Easter Sunday service and the number of people it takes to live stream to its congregation....
[Pastor Steve] Smothermon of Legacy Church filed suit requesting a temporary restraining order but also a permanent injunction affording them the same restrictions as local essential retailers, limiting capacity to 20%. Smothermon says to hold yesterday’s service they would have a worship team, a band, the pastor and technical staff. A group of about 30 people. Therefore, conducting the live-streamed services would immediately violate the governor’s order to limit gatherings to no more than five people.
(Excerpt) Read more at religionclause.blogspot.com ...
Everyone of the these Rat and Rino governors needed to be sued to their last red cent, and then thrown in jail.
I wonder if they’ll make Christians wear a cross on their clothing to show who they are and to be avoided at all costs; the Jewish SOD sewn onto clothing during German occupation comes to mind.
Sorry this needs to happen. But it needs to happen and continue to happen until the church is once again in charge of calling worship services.
I’ve noticed there is no similar supervision of mosques, though Muslims are more likely to live in dense multi-generational households.
And then there’s the scapegoating of Christians, during their holy week no less.
New York Times author doubles down in blaming Trump, Christians for pandemic
‘Christian nationalism played a major role in creating and promoting ... America’s incompetent response.’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-york-times-author-doubles-down-in-blaming-trump-christians-for-pandemic
Of course there are far fewer mosques than churches. And they may be minding the “laws” better, I don’t know.
I am all for obeying just laws. Canceling physical worship services is immoral and unconstitutional imo.
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