Posted on 04/09/2020 11:51:45 AM PDT by Morgana
The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky says churches will not be allowed to hold drive-in services on Easter Sunday.
Mayor Greg Fischer, a Democrat, said he made his decision with a “heavy heart.”
“Our job is to deny the virus,” the mayor told television station WDRB. “If we don’t do that, more lives will be lost. I know it’s tough…I just can’t allow (drive-thru church services) to happen.”
The Courier-Journal reports that the mayor wants congregants who “belong to a church that is defying Fischer’s request to contact their minister or the city’s 311 line.”
The mayor actually wants Christians to rat out their pastors, folks.
“It’s not really practical or safe to accommodate drive up services taking place in our community,” the mayor said during a video address. “Think about this on Sunday morning there would be hundreds of thousands of people driving around our community.”
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, also a Democrat, said he supports leaders across the state who are banning churches from holding drive-in services, the newspaper reported.
“This is not the time to put large numbers of people in the same space,” the mayor said. “That would just create a tinder box for the virus. It creates way too many opportunities for people to contract the disease.”
Steven Webb, the pastor of the Dixie Valley Church of God said he understands the mayor’s edict.
“Scripture tells us that God tells us that we should obey the authority that he has placed over us,” he told television station WLKY. “And so for us it is no question that if the governor and the mayor has asked for us to do that then we should obey that.”
But a good many people around the city are not happy with the mayor’s decision.
“How come drive-in church services are being cancelled this week in Louisville to ‘flatten the curve,’ but drive-thrus and drive-up ice cream stores are open as well as liquor stores and abortion clinics,” one person wrote on social media.
“This is our mayor,” wrote another citizen, “Abortion clinics open, but no to drive-in church. What is wrong with this picture?”
That’s a fair question.
The EMW Women’s Surgical Center, which advertises itself as the state’s only licensed abortion clinic, is open for business at this very moment.
I’d say the risk of death in an abortion clinic is far greater than attending a drive-in Easter Sunday church service.
If he really believed all that he would close the abortion clinic
Criminalizing Christianity is every Democrats deepest craving.
Yup, after reading that lede, I just KNEW the idiot was a dimbulbcrat.
Bingo.
Boy, we’re gonna need to order some extra guillotines from China to fulfill all the folks we’re going to have to “service” after we punish them for their virtually 100% idiot decisions.
Harbor Freight will have one on sale as soon as someone else starts making them.
IMHO, Mayor Greg Fisher’s Pearly Gates entrance exam will probably be PPV....
Why didn’t the bishop of Louisville close all the churches?
This "pastor" would lead his fellow Christians straight to the guillotine if it was ordered of him by "the authority", IMHO.
Spineless locksteppers like him make me sick.
Scripture is also full of instances where governments tried to prevent gathering for prayer. The people fought against it, and many were murdered by the government because of it.
You give government what belongs to government and you give to God what belongs to God.
We were warned not to neglect gathering together as we see the end coming, as is the custom of some.
The Mayor is not familiar with scripture.
We can trust people to do the right thing at grocery stores, where one constantly touches items just touched by others, just not at church, where people would be presumably sitting apart, listening and singing.
Got it, “Greg”.
The saying going around after 911 was, "We're all Israelis now."
Genesis 49:1-2 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father...
People are in their cars, right?
Many pols are using the CCPV as an excuse to shut down Christianity and Judaeism. They did it temporarily with this and if the Democrats sweep the election in November, and they might, if the economy doesn’t show signs of reviving quickly, the Climate Emergency the Democrat president will declare will be used to shut down all religion except of course Islam, permanently. The difference between Democrats and Chinese Communism is largely experience.
Bad idea. If the guillotines are made in China they’ll either break or kill the executioners, just like poisoned dog food.
Yes I believe so
Ignore him. Don’t surrender your Bill of Rights to the fascists!
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I'm back tracking on this is for sanitation reasons, mainly going to the bathroom. I'm sorry to many people are going to want to use the churches bathroom and unless they decide something just way off the wall like Women will do their business on the grass or in the bushes on one side of the church building and men will do their business on the other side of the Church building and nobody allow to come to the service until they get number two out of the way. LOL. The whole idea like I described in the above is just a bad idea, and you just got to know once the word got around the church decided to do this it will make it way to the Health Department and all hell would cut loose.
Other things to consider what about collecting tithes, are they going to have some one going around passing a plate, are they going to have the Lord's Supper and pass a plate too, all kinds of things like that can spread the virus. And what about all those families stopping into Walmart before or after Church and stopping to get breakfast or lunch at McDonald's, and stopping to get gas before or after church it just totally defeats the whole idea of having a Drive Through Churches thinking they are being safe in doing so. Better for the Church members to stay at home, and adapt better technologies like Zoom to have Church services they can see from home on their computer and stuff like then to have people out and about when they should be at home shelter in place, I'm sure the writers of the Constitution would agree with me on this too. That part about government shall pass no laws in regards to religion well I'm sure the writers of the Constitution would of put in a exception clause to a virus, but why should they some things are just common sense things that don't really need to be written down.
My church in Oregon is doing a drive-thru, and to answer your questions, they’ve told everyone they must stay inside their cars, bring their own communion bread and juice and tithing is done online.
Indiana has specifically allowed drive-in church as long as a few regulations are followed (ie. Stay in car, etc.)
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