Posted on 11/04/2021 5:39:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
(RNS) — Texas voters on Tuesday (Nov. 2) overwhelmingly supported a measure barring governments from taking any kind of action that limits religious services, such as the public health orders that shut down houses of worship and businesses earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Proposition 3, which will add a clause to the Texas Constitution forbidding state or local authorities from prohibiting or limiting religious services, garnered 62.4% of votes, according to unofficial results from the Texas secretary of state.
The measure had the support of the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops and some other — but not all — religious groups.
John Greiner, who pastors the nondenominational Glorious Way Church in Houston, called the measure crucial. He said individual churches and people who go to church “should be in charge of their own health care decisions, their own risks-to-reward behaviors.”
“The church should be the place where people go to get healed. There’s lots of churches and some don’t believe in healing. … They should be free to close if that’s what they want to do, but I don’t think that the government should impose that upon any group at all,” Greiner told Religion News Service.
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Why should Texans have to vote on what is already guaranteed?
Because during Covid last year churches were shut down, and we were not happy that our governor and local entities did that us. So a proposal to the state Constitution was put to the voters, and passed.
So your TX Constitution did not guarantee free excercise to begin with?
Why should Texans have to vote on what is already guaranteed?
So that the Texas Supreme court can have recourse to the COnstitution of Texas in the event that the USSC is not all that one might desire.
As mentioned above, why did the TX Constitution not guarantee the free exercise of religion in the first place?
The Texas Constitution wasn’t the problem. It was the chuckle-heads in charge as well as the massive amount of FEAR propagated by the enemedia. Pretty much showed the incompetence of those that “rule” over US.
Prop 2 was more concerning as the maroons that voted yes for this crap-tastrophe just allowed any county in the state to put their fingers further into the taxpayer pie.
Prop 2 passing irked me. I was happy to see designated contact for nursing homes passed.
I’m just saying, Texas voted on securing something already guaranteed by God. My comment and stance is based on the thread title alone, I confess.
Like voting in favor of prohibiting murder.
“I’m just saying, Texas voted on securing something already guaranteed by God. My comment and stance is based on the thread title alone, I confess.”
Yep.... which calls into question whether those who confess to believe in God for all to see actually do as Fear Not is stated 365 times in the Bible. An upright man fearth not. There are many “hunchbacks” among US FRiend.
Are you that naïve about what has happened in our country, or do you have to work at it?
“Texans vote in favor of inalienable rights.” Has a redundant ring to it, no? What has happened is a steady stupefication of the American public, Texans included. Is that something we should embrace?
Your lofty rhetorical didacticism is not very embraceable. We are already onto the game.
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