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California pastor moves worship outdoors after county fines church $112K for indoor services: County Says It Has No Plans To Forgive Fines
Christian Post ^ | 09/20/2020 | Anugrah Kumar

Posted on 09/20/2020 7:59:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California
1 posted on 09/20/2020 7:59:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

1st Amendment is a joke in that county.


2 posted on 09/20/2020 8:01:32 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

I am offended that this local government calls itself “Santa Clara County”. “Hillary County” would be much more appropriate for a location controlled by Pharisees.


3 posted on 09/20/2020 8:04:16 AM PDT by Bernard (Going commando - no tagline today)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s an outpost of America in that wasteland North of the airport.

The County hates them and wants them to cease to exist.

Meanwhile, organized rioters go on their merry way doing whatever they feel like and Williams does nothing.


4 posted on 09/20/2020 8:07:12 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind
The Pastor should go to the Federal courts on this.In June a Federal judge overturned an order by the Massachusetts Governor (a Trump hating RINO) that gun shops be closed.It was a violation of 2nd Amendment rights,ruled the judge.

A week or two ago a Federal judge struck down at least some of the orders issued by the Trump hating Governor of Pennsylvania...again stating that they violated basic Constitutional rights.

5 posted on 09/20/2020 8:08:31 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only purpose of most local government is to take money from people. Some agencies may provide some service, but I question whether the service is worth the cost.


6 posted on 09/20/2020 8:08:46 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud)
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To: SeekAndFind

Take them to the Supreme Court and watch the county pay MUCH MUCH more (in legal fees alone).


7 posted on 09/20/2020 8:13:30 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SeekAndFind

If a government cannot tax a church, how can they fine one?


8 posted on 09/20/2020 8:14:27 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Bayard

Looting Nike or Apple stores is fine, especially if you stay below $950, the Prop 47 threshold for a felony.


9 posted on 09/20/2020 8:16:30 AM PDT by Stevenfo
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberals are developing a taste for persecuting churches. It will grow.

Acts 5:41
“So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.”


10 posted on 09/20/2020 8:20:29 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: SeekAndFind
Santa Clara, why don't you send your “fines” to the LORD Himself.

Romans 2:1-6

“Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Who will render to every man according to his deeds...”

11 posted on 09/20/2020 8:25:10 AM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: PeterPrinciple
The Government can do as they damn well please. They have the power in the guns of the police to enforce their edicts, legal or illegal In a just World everything they have done is illegal. None of it has been voted on by State Legislatures. However, we live in a land controlled by Democrat thieves, robbers, and murderers and since evil hates, punishes, and even murders does of good at every opportunity, here's where we are. On the bright side, we have voted for and approved everything they have done to us. How? Each time a Democrat was elected to Public Office. In the end, we have no one to blame but ourselves. A Democrat is evil incarnate. Each evil deed he/she does is to please his/her father, Satan. So one can't blame the Democrat because when they do evil they are just doing their job, pleasing their father, the devil.
12 posted on 09/20/2020 8:38:11 AM PDT by sport
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RE: Take them to the Supreme Court and watch the county pay MUCH MUCH more (in legal fees alone).

Jay Sekulow’s team at ACLJ will be glad to be their lawyers before the courts, the legal fees paid for by tens of thousands of Christian and Jewish supporters.


13 posted on 09/20/2020 8:51:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Regulator

43%+ of the residents of Santa Clara are foreign born.
Is it any surprise they care little for American ‘rights’?
The real crime is what the local governments have done to this once beautiful area.
It’s become ‘the golden shower state’...


14 posted on 09/20/2020 8:54:50 AM PDT by glasseye ("Remember that it is not a prayer which will keep the darkness at bay, but a sword".)
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To: SeekAndFind

Since RBG was an ACLU lawyer who sat on the Supreme Court, Trump should find time to nominate Jay Sekulow to the bench in the next 4 years.

I listen to their program most nights.


15 posted on 09/20/2020 8:56:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Bayard

Church bad but but riots good. Sounds reasonable.


16 posted on 09/20/2020 9:38:46 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: glasseye

“Is it any surprise they care little for American ‘rights’?”

Not at all. I watched the whole thing happen over the last 35 years.

It was astonishing to move here in the ‘80s and listen to Chinese people bitching about their status as ‘bananas’.

Was raised to believe that all these “immigrants” would assimilate.

NONE of them did. Even the ones who aren’t particularly political still see themselves as “victims” and that white people are the foreigners.

The buildings they live in, the streets they drive on, the companies they work at, the schools they took over, the courts they rely on were all built by those evil whiteys that they hate so much.

And the garbage gangsters of Santa Clara County “government”? One hundred percent anti-American.

It’s no longer an American place. It’s an Occupied Zone, working furiously every day to stamp out any trace of American occupation and culture lest the lie that they promote be revealed: they weren’t here, it’s not their land, it’s not their country and they are nothing but thieves stealing that which they could not make.


17 posted on 09/20/2020 9:46:49 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

California has become Satan’s home away from home.


18 posted on 09/20/2020 10:24:36 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: a fool in paradise

Jay Sekulow?

The screeching from the left would be heard from one end of the country to the next - and it would be a hoot to hear.


19 posted on 09/20/2020 11:08:14 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Take them to the Supreme Court and watch the county pay MUCH MUCH more (in legal fees alone).”

“Supreme Court again rejects church challenge to virus restriction”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/508991-supreme-court-again-rejects-church-challenge-to-virus-restriction


20 posted on 09/20/2020 11:29:29 AM PDT by suthener
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