RATHEREXPOSETHEM: 05/28/20

PRAY FOR SUPREME COURT DECISION

ON CHURCH FREEDOM

BY DAVID CLOUD

SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/pray_for_supreme_court_decision_on_church_freedom.php;

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May 28, 2020





David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org





“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1 Timothy 2:1-6).

The petitions of two churches to override the closures in Illinois and California are before the Supreme Court. Arguments have been heard, and a decision could be pending.

The following is from “Illinois church becomes 2nd congregation to file emergency request,” Fox News, May 27, 2020:

An Illinois church has filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court, challenging Gov. Jay Pritzker’s closure of houses of worship during the coronavirus crisis a day after another congregation in California made a similar move.

The case will be handled by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, based on geography, and he has asked the opposing state officials to respond by Thursday evening, just as Justice Elena Kagan asked of the California church that filed an emergency request on Tuesday.

Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church and the Logos Baptist Ministries filed the emergency order citing precedent in a 1947 Supreme Court case “Everson v. Board of Education.” In that case, the Court wrote that “Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church… Neither can force nor influence a person to go or remain away from a church against his will.” They argued that the church’s rights were being infringed upon under the Free Exercise and Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and called for the case to be taken up before May 31, the Christian holiday of Pentecost.

The plaintiffs argue that the Illinois reopening plan imposes a “unique 10 person limit on religious worship services” that is not imposed on retail, liquor stores, restaurants, office buildings, etc. and other services which have been deemed “essential.”

STATEN ISLAND & BROOKLYN, N.Y.: ENRAGED COVID-CRAZED MOB CHASES UNMASKED WOMAN FROM SUPERMARKET~POLICE TACKLE UNMASKED WOMAN WITH BABY TO THE GROUND IN SUBWAY

BY SELWYN DUKE

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/35820-viral-video-enraged-covid-crazed-mob-chases-unmasked-woman-from-supermarket;

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At least she wasn’t lynched.

In a striking example of the mob mentality at work, a woman was recently chased from a supermarket in Staten Island, New York, because she wasn’t wearing a mask. A now-viral video (below) of the COVID-crazed patrons hurling profanities and screaming at the woman was posted to Twitter Sunday night after user “McAuley” found it on Reddit.

McAuley@McauleyHolmes

Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus

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20:54 - 24 May 2020

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Since April 17, an executive order signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo — who killed nursing-home residents by requiring that their facilities accept virus-positive patients — has compelled New Yorkers to wear masks in public in situations where social distancing is impossible. As a consequence, stores in the state require patrons to wear masks.

Social pressure may be the only way now the mask rule is enforced in New York City, however. For, after a 22-year-old mother was forcibly restrained by police and arrested (video below) on May 13, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that authorities would no longer enforce the mask order in most situations.

Of course, the video above indicates that, once again, a statist politician (de Blasio) has thrown the police under the bus for enforcing rules he and his fellow travelers created/advocate. One may also wonder here when the worlds’ Andrew Cuomos will be arrested for their disastrous nursing-home policies (which smack of negligent manslaughter).

But our current situation is symbolically fascinating: In a time when Wuhan virus concerns are being used as a pretext to ban protests and censor dissenters on social media — to silence people — that muzzling is symbolized by having Americans wear masks covering their mouths.

This said, citizens can still often weigh in (unless their commentary is too powerful, popular, and politically incorrect; then it gets yanked), and leftists certainly did under the Twitter video, as the below selection evidences (hat tip: American Thinker).

McAuley@McauleyHolmes

· 24 May 2020

Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus

My safety over your "freedom"@Tm65560550

Cool. Finally. Cuz at this point, a maskless person in an indoor place is like a shooter pointing his gun at me.

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MWZH (liberate china)@MWZH1

· 25 May 2020

Replying to @McauleyHolmes

That isn’t “social pressure”, it’s clinical insanity

ColonelClutterbuck@CnlClutterbuck

It is clinical insanity. 100,000 people in the US have died from a deadly virus and the number keeps going up. All it takes to save lives is wearing a mask and keeping your distance. To be so self-centered that you can't comply with 2 easy requirements is absolutely clinical.

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McAuley@McauleyHolmes

· 24 May 2020

Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus

JaguarPower@power_jaguar

Finally. The anti-maskers have been bullies & spreaders of the virus. Those of us wearing masks should not put up with them. They are wrong

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05:52 - 25 May 2020

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Then, perhaps missing the irony that the Ku Klux Klan was a Democrat organization, one respondent posted the below:

McAuley@McauleyHolmes

· 24 May 2020

Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus

Tater McBride@kim1313

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(Given that a GQ political reporter recently misidentified in print infamous segregationist George Wallace as a Republican, it wouldn’t be surprising if the above respondent really didn’t know the KKK’s party passions.)

Interestingly, just as how the pandemic has caused leftists to have a newfound (provisional) appreciation for state’s powers (when resisting President Trump’s recommendation to “open” back up), American Thinker also points out (tweet below) that some have suddenly seen the value of freedom of association.

Cole Edwards Rockland Rocket@ColeEdw83549118

· 24 May 2020

Replying to @McauleyHolmes

I am an American. I'm not forced to wear ANYTHING.
UNDERSTAND?

OG Sharpton@AlSharptonXXXXL

You're not. The stores are also American and are not forced to accept customers in their doors that don't follow their rules. Private businesses don't have to cater to everyone. UNDERSTAND?

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What principle! Except, it turns out that this respondent was against freedom of association before he was for it, as the 2017 tweet below, discovered by American Thinker, evidences.

Hammy @e2pilot

· 5 Dec 2017

Replying to @fawfulfan @imillhiser

Clearly his argument was for the wedding (he stated he woudl make them other things) , again, keep trying to move the goal posts, and keep failing

OG Sharpton@AlSharptonXXXXL

No, he did not say he would make them something else, he clearly said he would not participate in their wedding by making something directly for it. He offered to sell them generic things that were already made. He refused to make anything new for their wedding specifically.

13:55 - 5 Dec 2017

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But OG Sharpton has company changing with the wind. While many are running around like Chicken Little and going mask crazy, forgotten is that authorities haven’t always been crazy about masks. The World Health Organization stated in late March that there “is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit.”

The same month the CDC also recommended not donning a mask; four weeks later it was all for it. Dr. Anthony Fauci did the same about-face. First he downplayed masks’ effectiveness in early March (video below).

Then he changed his tune (video below) and even seemed to tacitly acknowledge that the earlier recommendation was a lie designed to ensure that medical workers would have masks available.

As the top commenter mockingly said under the first Fauci video, “Simon says........put on a mask....Simon says........take it off.” So what should we do?

The New American wrote last week that “not only can face masks be ineffective, they can help transmit the virus and worsen its effect.” So maybe a face mask is just like Linus’s security blanket — or maybe the jury is still out.

What I do know is that it’s ironic how leftists want all 331 million Americans masked — with exceptions made for the world’s General Flynns.

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