God-Given Rights, Except During Emergencies
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 7 months ago
Via WiscoDave, news from Florida.
A Hillsborough County pastor was arrested Monday after he intentionally and repeatedly violated orders that no gatherings of 10 or more people he held in order to stop of the spread of COVID-19 by holding services at his megachurch, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister announced Monday afternoon.
The sheriff’s office received an anonymous tip on Friday that Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, the pastor of the megachurch River at Tampa Bay Church in Riverview, refused to stop holding mass gatherings and instead was encouraging people to come to services.
[…] “His reckless disregard for human life put hundreds of people in his congregation at risk and thousands of residents who may interact with them in danger,” Chronister said.
Next up, news from North Carolina.
On Sunday, we reported that four men were arrested outside a Greensboro, N.C., abortion clinic, where they were conducting a prayer walk. Despite the fact that that a pro-life group, Love Life, had canceled its group meeting and everyone was following the rules for social distancing, the Greensboro Police Department arrested them and charged them with violating Guilford County’s stay-at-home order.
Apparently not happy with violating the First Amendment rights of four prayer warriors, the Greensboro Police Department arrested seven more people on Monday after they were caught praying in public in front of a facility that makes its money by slaughtering innocent children.
Gotta make sure we can kill children, no social distancing for that. But praying outside the murder-mill, nope. Worship services? No to that too.
There is no question that all of this involves a gigantic power grab by not just the FedGov, but state and local governments as well.
And it isn’t a good precedent.
What if the government decides to shut down a church because of threats of violence by Muslim gangs or Antifa? How many pastors would honor such a shutdown? How long would it last?
Don’t balk. The church in Mesopotamia – there for thousands of years – was eradicated by Shi’ite militia.
On April 2, 2020 at 12:03 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
In the news, there have been plenty of reports of churches – Christian churches – being shut-down for health/safety reasons, but no mention whatsoever of other places of worship. Did the authorities shut down the mosques, too?
Inquiring minds want to know….