If thousands of Christian institutions and business owners across the country disobeyed it, that puts the regime in a completely untenable position. Arresting owners or putting these institutions out of business en masse is not something they want to be doing. Correction: they want to do it, but they won’t because of the public reaction to it.
“If thousands of Christian institutions and business owners across the country disobeyed it, that puts the regime in a completely untenable position. Arresting owners or putting these institutions out of business en masse is not something they want to be doing. Correction: they want to do it, but they won’t because of the public reaction to it.”
I worked for Honeywell. The GAO sent in an auditing team which spent a year and found nothing. The GAO was embarrassed. So, they trumped something up and threatened to send a VP to prison. (I was friends with the VP’s son.) They literally extorted several hundred thousand dollars out of Honeywell. But the negotiations took almost a year. The VP was harassed and very uncomfortable.
The government is the Mafia only legal. They can and they will freeze thousands of bank accounts. They really don’t care what anybody thinks. It would ruin all of those businesses all at once. What you’re suggesting simply won’t work. I understand that you think people won’t stand for it. But other than their occasional vote, “people” don’t have any standing in this issue.
But this administration would simply NOT enforce the law against most of them, and then pick one high-profile case, and go after THAT one. And when they were done, they’d pick ANOTHER high-profile case.
All the rest would have to fall in line for fear of being singled out eventually.
It is the power of the dictator, to selectively enforce the laws.