Posted on 06/05/2020 4:57:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that ongoing protests in the city merit exceptions to coronavirus regulations, while religious services do not. The mayor’s remarks have drawn criticism from New York’s archdiocese.
“When you see a nation, an entire nation simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism, I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services,” de Blasio said at a June 2 press conference, while defending his policy of allowing mass protests while continuing to restrict religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday, Ed Mechmann, director of public policy for the Archdiocese of New York, said the mayor’s policy shows that religious liberty is now considered a low priority in the city.
“It is clear that in the eyes of our government officials, the politically preferred viewpoint of anti-racism is favored and allowed, while the unpopular one of religious worship is belittled and denigrated,” Mechmann wrote on the archdiocesan website June 3.
With the differing standards of the city for protests and religious gatherings, Mechmann said, “we have once again been given proof that religious liberty is a second-class right.”
New York has been under a strict stay-at-home order starting March 22, and it is only in the early stages of reopening public spaces.
According to the state’s public health department, the city will not enter “phase one” of reopening until June 8. New Yorkers are being instructed to “wear a mask and maintain 6 feet distance in public.”
Meanwhile, protesters have gathered nightly by the thousands across the city to demonstrate against racism and police brutality following the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody.
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Well there is one certain religion that I wouldn’t cover that blanket with.
There was not any doubt of that even before all the crap he's pulled this year.
John Lindsey was pretty bad.
EVERY SINGLE CHURCH IN NY STATE NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR DOORS WIDE OPEN THIS SUNDAY. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
This is why most atheists are unfit for public office. The government is his true religion.
Not THAT bad.
So what needs to happen is protests against the prejudice against religion.
See: David Dinkins
That is true in some cases, not all.
I am not a fan of protests, and after all of the stuff the past week, I’m protested out. We need civil disobedience — religious believers of all kinds attending their houses of worship. They can’t arrest us all. Any effort by the government to stop it will show what we are up against.
The Marxist bastard has bought into the 1619 narrative as well as Marx’s “religion is the opiate of the people”.
Warren Wilhelm has outdone Dinkins. Dinkins was a mere piker. Wilhelm is a full bore communist.
Presumably, there is an objective measurement of "riot damage" somewhere in the FBI files.
Yeah, a close contender I guess.
Let us see: buying merchandise from stores is prohibited and criminalized, but looting the same merchandise from the same stores is widely practiced and celebrated. Killing innocent unborn babies is so widely practiced and triumphantly celebrated that it annihilates a majority of the preborn population in the City (and disproportionately black babies suffer this fate), but objecting to the genocide openly and vocally is prohibited and criminalized with strict enforcement. So of course the city government cannot tolerate a group of people who proclaim “Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
We have in the City of New York a Communist dictatorship with complete nonsense for a governing philosophy. I completely endorse this piece in National Review:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-should-vote-for-the-opposite/
Michael Brendan Dougherty proposes, “All left-wing activism shall be banned in the name of public health or restricted to ten people or fewer no matter the size of the venue. At the same time, this candidate must vocally encourage attendance at massive religious processions as an obvious remedy for what ails society.”
Remember, protesting is still illegal, but looting, graffiti vandalism, property destruction, and car-torching, especially in large groups, is strangely encouraged.
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