Posted on 05/24/2020 10:04:21 AM PDT by simpson96
A Sunday service showdown could be looming across the state this weekend.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed President Donald Trump’s calls on Friday for churches and other houses of worship to reopen, while Gov. J.B. Pritzker — who has managed to fend off a series of legal challenges against his stay-at-home order — said Illinois will “continue to operate on the basis of science and data.”
Lightfoot was more pointed in her criticism of Trump, who, during a hastily arranged White House press conference, said he’d identified churches, synagogues and mosques as “essential places that provide essential services” — and that he would “override” governors who don’t abide by his request to open them.
The mayor called those remarks the latest in a long list of “dangerous and foolish” things the president has said.
“The faith leaders that I’ve talked to across the city recognize that they have to be smart about this, they’re worried about their parishioners, and we get that,” Lightfoot said during a news conference announcing plans to “cautiously reopen” sectors of the city economy.
“We are not going to rush to do something, so he can fulfill a campaign promise that sets people’s lives at risk. … He’s said so many dangerous and foolish things — add this to the list,” she said.
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A detail that I haven’t seen addressed after all this hand wringing: Nobody is being FORCED to go to church.
The forcing done was by Cuomo and WuFlu positive people into nursing homes !
I imagine those families praying together also LIVE together............
I’m predicting she will be Biden’s choice for VP
Let it collapse and revert back to a territory.
FU Groot.
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If she’s Groot does that make Biden the space racoon ?
Lightfoot is a gift for Republicans.
It may be better with the churches shut down. The faith will flower in different and maybe better ways. More person-to-person rather than institutionalized. No misuse of the churches that have been infiltrated by apostasy. No misuse of the church mainly as a social center.
Some of us cheered when the public schools were closed, for obvious reasons.
The churches that open will close down again soon on their own.
She makes Maxine Waters look like a beauty queen.
Gay clubs, abortion clinics and liquor stores are essential but not Churches? As long as people aren’t packed in I doubt it would be much of an issue.
Get behind me Satan.
5.56mm
I Am Groot !!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s an idea mayor if you want to go to church then go to church if your concerned about virus wait it out longer to go to church. I guarantee churches are going to have more safeguards than liquor and hardware stores!
Do wiccans even have churches? What would she know about anything?
“The only dangerous thing about this is how easily pastors were cowed into closing their churches.”
I’ll bet they were the ones that are under the tax exempt of a 501C. Of course they didn’t want to lose that.
Where is the science Mayor Light-In-The-head?
So is getting your hair cut when you tell everyone else they can’t.
Lord God, bless Trump and the country for this decision.
GO TO HELL, you EVIL WITCH!! Church is the MOST essential next to FOOD!! Are ALL DEMOCRATS this evil and STUPID? YES!
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