Posted on 08/16/2020 6:35:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 14, 2020 (Thomas More Society) — The Thomas More Society filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz yesterday for his Executive Orders requiring face masks at religious worship services. The United States District Court complaint is on behalf of three Christian churches, their leaders and church-goers who are charging that Walz, his Attorney General, and several county attorneys are violating their religious liberties by limiting capacity, requiring 6’ social distancing and requiring face masks.
“Governor Walz, a former teacher, gets a F in religious liberties,” declared Thomas More Society Special Counsel Erick Kaardal. “Other states, including Texas, Illinois, and Ohio have excluded churches from COVID-19 mask mandates. Unlike Walz, those states have recognized that you cannot criminalize religious attendance at houses of worship for any reason. Governor Walz wants to prosecute Minnesotans for religious attendance. We are going to do our best not to see that happen.”
Kaardal also observed that other state leaders who have persisted in this type of religious discrimination have been slapped down by federal courts, as in the case of New York’s Governor Cuomo.
“Minnesota’s governor is wreaking havoc on the religious freedoms of the faithful. Christians of all denominations, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews are bound by their faith to worship together. Time-honored rites and rituals, including prayers, singing, communion, and a laying of hands in blessing, are among those elements that comprise the free exercise of religion, for which the First Amendment disallows the prohibition thereof,” explained Kaardal. “That is the central tenet of the complaint. It is only compounded by Walz’s expressly imposed no-exception, six-foot social distancing requirements on religious ceremonies in churches and Minnesota’s conflicting laws that concurrently criminalize wearing a mask as well as not wearing a mask.”
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Don’t sue. Just ignore them. No governor wants to be compared to the Chicoms for arresting and jailing church members. At least not yet.
We Should do both. We need to set precedents. We have a flu season every year that the tyrants are going to try to exploit now.
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Guess we need to move to Italy? Q What are other countries doing with church services? Looks like the US Churches are under Demoncrat sic control. VOTE DEM OUT!
Expose these anti-Free-America loser fascists . Resist their unconstitutional BS.
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