Posted on 05/22/2020 5:35:55 PM PDT by lightman
Dolly said it best in joyful Noise.. anybody can be a pastor, just takes 5 minutes. These folks must have taken her advice.
Women cannot Sheppard local flocks.
Cowards
They can stay closed until the Kingdom of God returns to earth or they actually grow a brain, which ever comes first.
But we have reopened and more and more churches are joining us.
Some “faith leaders” need to learn to code.
It’s the church’s choice.
The point is the government has no right to close churches. If church’s choose to close that’s fine. But it is the churches choice.
How they grow or decline after this crisis is over will depend on what they choose now.
Not ready? Stay home and shut yourself in to avoid the cootie bogeyman.
Simple!
Exactly.
Their church, their choice.
I respect THEIR right to choose even when they choose poorly.
I cannot respect a Governor usurping that right and choosing for them.
I an only RESIST!
Yes.
Pr. Martini is in his rookie call...not much life experience.
Pr. Reeves is a bit more seasoned but wrong gender plus hyphenated last name equals WOKENESS on steroids.
They hardly sound like faith leaders, lol. Open the churches so people can go in. Someone else can act as faith leader.
Are churches/houses of worship protected against lawsuits by attendees who become sickened (or the families of those who may die) in their space?
I believe THAT is the primary reason many businesses are remaining closed (including churches).
While FReepers laud those businesses that ignore restrictions and re-open (and I understand the financial pressure influencing those decisions), the fact is they may be liable for huge dollar amounts if someone contracts this in those places - and their insurance companies probably won’t have to cover the loss (meaning the business is probably done at that point).
Hmmmmm. I don’t think Trump said or meant, “We are going to force you to open”. So, what’s the problem?
LOL!
Of course the media is going to make this out as some kind of dispute!
Ni matter how hard they have to try.
At least one Greek Orthodox is requiring parishes to place signage on its doors to the effect that by voluntarily entering the person is acknowledging that doing so is not risk-free and that they might contract COVID 19 or some other disease and therefore will hold the parish harmless.
Now that only slows down a lawsuit by a few seconds...about as effective as a cloth mask against a microscopic virus.
We’re ready, but our governor wants to run the churches.
Freedom is a good thing; we should bring it back and never allow thugs to interfere with our most basic rights again.
Churches that choose not to open have the right to remain closed. Churches that choose to open for normal services, with or without masks, have the God-given right to make that choice. My minister does nine services for Christmas, and he has said he would be happy to do nine every week to allow everyone to attend without crowding - again, his/our choice. What is not a legitimate option is for governors to issue executive orders that interfere with the free exercise of religion.
Bellevue Southern Baptist in MEMPHIS has as of 2017, 30,000 members, Huge church.
Yes; in my area in NJ the first suit would be brought by some imports claiming they couldn’t read it in the language in which it is written (and they’d win).
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