Posted on 04/17/2020 6:37:49 PM PDT by marshmallow
MENDOCINO COUNTY, California, April 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – On Good Friday, a county in the Golden State issued an order to churches banning singing ostensibly to further stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Mendocino County, which hugs California’s Pacific Coast about 100 miles north of San Francisco, published a revision of its former “Shelter in Place Orders” which some observers are saying goes too far.
The directive, which is in force until May 10, limits events, including live-streamed events, to four individuals. It goes on to state:
No singing or use of wind instruments, harmonicas, or other instruments that could spread COVID-19 through projected droplets shall be permitted unless the recording of the event is done at one’s residence, and involving only the members of one’s household or living unit, because of the increased risk of transmission of COVID-19.
‘Particularly chilling’
“The policy in Mendocino County is particularly chilling,” wrote R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in an essay at The Federalist.
“Authorities can and should require that churches respect and maintain physical distancing between all the very limited participants in a streamed worship service. The worship leader, the other musicians, and the pastor should comply with the local, state, and federal guidelines that are in place to help stop the spread of COVID-19,” wrote Mohler on his website.
“It is an entirely different matter, however, to tell Christians that they cannot sing in praise and honor of God,” he continued. “Indeed, these orders came out just days before Resurrection Sunday—orders saying that Christians, on the day where they celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, are prohibited from signing.”
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That day when Stupid and Anti-Christian had lunch together.
Can they still preform 4’33?
Forget the popcorn, we need more tar and more feathers.
I believe the day when the 2d Amendment becomes the most important is at hand.
Somebody has got to start it out.
Till then, I got things to do. I am to old for that shit anyway. But if they come and try this crap with me, heaven help them.
"The directive, which is in force until May 10, limits events, including live-streamed events, to four individuals."
Commies
1. Sing despite the order;
2. Wait to be arrested and/or fined;
3. Sue every single person from the governor or county executive on down to the cops and magistrates, for deprivation of civil rights under color of law (Title 42, Section 1983). They will be personally liable.
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.”
(New Testament, Acts 16:25,26)
That's the problem. Once you start accepting the government's argument - that it has a legitimate right to regulate worship services - you lose. Because at that point, its just a question about what is reasonable. If you concede that the government is the judge of that for churches, then its an easy step to say that the government is the best judge and should be given some slack in a crisis in how it determines what restrictions are reasonable.
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