The Democrats continue to impose barbaric punishments using Corona as a cloak for these punitive measures.
Geller Report has been publishing the continuing Democrat abuse of power during the Corona lockdown. But nails in the road to stop good folks from attending church on Easter Sunday takes the cake.
- Massachusetts Democrat Mayor BEGINS MANDATORY NIGHTTIME LOCKDOWN during Coronavirus panic
- Dem. Michigan Governor Bans Sales of American Flags During Coronavirus Lockdown
- Michigan Governor Bans Gardening, Sale Of Fruit and Vegetable Seeds, Gardening Supplies Prohibited
- DEMOCRAT RULE: Philly Police Violently Drag Man From Bus for Not Wearing a Face Mask
- Democrat Governor Recording License Plates Of Easter Sunday Churchgoers, Ordering Them To 14-Day Quarantine
- Even Though Kids Not Affected, NYC Mayor De Blasio Closes Public Schools For Good, Won’t Reopen Until September
- Boston suburb sets up one-way sidewalks to allow residents to practice social distancing – and police will hand out $100 fines to anyone who walks in the wrong direction
Coronavirus Is Exposing Little Tyrants All Over The Country
Kentucky worshipers met with nails in road as they defy coronavirus lockdown
A Kentucky church defied coronavirus lockdown orders to hold a packed Easter Sunday service — despite a heavy police presence and even nails blocking the parking lots, according to a report.
Maryville Baptist Church appeared to have a near-full house for its Sunday service despite orders to avoid in-person services — and the heightened risk of catching COVID-19, the Louisville Courier Journal said.
Worshipers arrived even after police warned that they would record their license plates to force them into 14-day quarantines.
Many — including the defiant pastor, the Rev. Jack Roberts — arrived with their plates covered, with officers instead recording their VIN numbers, the paper said.
Even more desperate measures appeared to have been taken to keep the faithful away — with “piles of nails” blocking each entrance, according to photos shared by the Courier Journal.
It was not clear who had left the nails, which were eventually cleared by church volunteers in time for the main arrivals, the paper said.
Kentucky state troopers then left large signs on every car left in the church lot, the paper said — accusing those present of “CREATING SCENES OF AN EMERGENCY.”
They noted that everyone in the car owner’s household would be forced to quarantine for 14 days for defying the warning — an order that several worshipers told the Courier Journal they planned to ignore.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear previously insisted that the state was not going to “padlock doors or arrest pastors” but just wanted to protect the wider community.
“To our knowledge, 99.89% of all churches and all synagogues and all mosques in Kentucky have chosen to do the right thing,” Beshear said Saturday, adding he was “just doing my best to save lives.”
Maryville appeared to be the only church to defy the ruling against in-person services, police told the Courier Journal.
Pastor Roberts had previously said he was “not interested in trying to defy the government” — but maintained he has a constitutional right to hold services for his faithful, the paper noted.
The orders were at the heart of a wider constitutional feud over the right to worship at a time when even Pope Francis is holding Easter Mass behind locked doors because of the serious risk of COVID-19 spreading.
A federal judge ruled Saturday that the mayor of Louisville’s “stunning” ban on drive-in Easter church services was “unconstitutional.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cheered the decision Saturday.
“Grateful for this strong, eloquent ruling defending Kentuckians’ religious liberty,” McConnell tweeted.
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Quarantine? Let’s start calling it what it is – house arrest.
NWO on crack
They want Christianity erased. It is Judeo Christian principles that shaped our country. That has to go to make room for state worship. Just like COMMUNIST China, only state worship is allowed.
China Bans Churches from Streaming Services, Even during Pandemic
Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor | Tuesday, April 7, 2020
https://www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/china-bans-churches-from-streaming-services-even-during-pandemic.html
Social distancing will end in time for Ramadan.
Good point!
No doubt about it. This is designed to deny our freedom and constitutional rights. There are more freedom in Mexico than in so-called “Land of the Free”. Judicial Watch is reporting how Mexican and American citizens freely crossing the border to get haircut, have tacos for lunch, visit family.
You are being suckered, my dear Americans.
Indeed. Tom Fitton is spot on.
The Mosques are not closed right now….Christian and Catholic are…..
Have heard the same, LW. But you know how careful national and local MSM are to keep this from becoming “public knowledge”. And – Muslims know when to lie low.
…except the one who stabbed three women to death and wounded another one at a truck stop in east Tennessee last week…….evil, evil, evil.
Amen. Until I see them closing Mosques during this time….we’ll know who is the protected class and who are enemies of the people.
Complete with double standards.
Muslims can go to their mosques with their call to prayer five times a day! How come they aren’t being arrested or harrassed?
don’t forget homeless people.
As you know, it won’t stop Christianity. In fact it is spurring on MORE converts as people look for comfort and hope.
Matthew 18:20
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Bible sales are way up!
Christian Publishers Report Bible Sales Soar
By Marisa Herman | Monday, 06 April 2020 11:21 AM
…
According to the Fox report, several Christian book publishers have seen an increase in Bible sales since the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Alabaster Co., which sells religious books geared toward the Instagram generation, reported a sales increase of 143 percent compared to last year.
“In this life-altering and unprecedented pandemic, people are looking for hope and restoration,” Brian Chung, co-founder and business director of Alabaster Co., told Fox News.
…
https://www.newsmax.com/us/bible-pandemic/2020/04/06/id/961544/
So maybe this virus was a blessing…..only in hard times do we find out what kind of people we are and what kind of Christian we are…..
I see families being closer than they have ever been. Parents are really getting to know their kids….and kids see their parents protecting them.
I see neighbors talking and helping each other.
Only in times of trouble do we learn who we really are…AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, AMERICA THE GREAT. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Indonesia and Malaysia have closed mosques and large religious gatherings.
Those are already Muslim countries. That have already made life hard for Christianity.
Indonesia has committed a full blown GENOCIDE of Christians in E. Timor in the 1970’s, where most, but not all, of the victims were Catholic. A genocide that, outside of AUS was ignored by the rotten, corrupt, dying West.
They kill people who piss them off. Christians pray for them.
…..because that would be “racist”……even though they are not a race…..they are a 1400 year old Death Cult.
Saw a meme. Letting prisoners out of jail while imprisoning the law abiding citizens.
They aren’t law abiding citizens. They broke the stay at home order.
unconstitutional orders by the Tyrannical Government
The “stay at home order” is a gross VIOLATION of the Constitution and those who are SWORN TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, and who are “enforcing” said “order” are GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON.
Mojo – have YOU ever bothered to read the Constitutoin?
Do YOU realize that the Constitution is the SOLE AUTHORITY or the existence of the Republic? Do you realize that if the “government” suspends the Constitution, they, at the same time, suspend their own “authority”? Do you realize that when ANY government suspends the Constitution they no longer have any authority under the Law and are then acting under “Color of Law” are no more than COMMON CRIMINALS and MUST be treated as such.
WRONG! Trump is in charge, and he says the lockdown will continue until May.
Burp and fart. Your post gives me gas.
Why don’t you mojo yourself?
They are panicking. They don’t know what to do, and they are afraid we might see that.
America is waking up – if we all went back to work how would they stop us – send in Chinese troops?
I posted on one of them that immediately went to a FEW banks and robbed them. Few are hiring right now and I doubt that convicted felons are high on the list to hire. The LEFT wants lawlessness.
….Obama: “there is Opportunity in Chaos.”
We’ve seen a lot of “opportunity” for the Left and the Globalists in this pandemic.
Other site has a video of a just released prisoner (because of the virus) breaking the arm of an elderly man while robbing him of 80 bucks. And as usual nobody did a damn thing.
The Second Amendment protects all the others.
Tell me there is not a war on CHRISTIANITY in the U.S.. It’s in the open. Notice many mosques hold their corporate call to prayer as usual during this “pandemic”. How come Imams and Muslims aren’t being harrassed and arrested?
An Imam Leads His Congregation Through the Pandemic
By Eliza Griswold
April 8, 2020
…
After two conference calls with his members, he felt that he needed to keep the mosque open for prayer and food services. “I have overwhelming support that people want to come out,” he told me. “We’re prepared to take the proper precautions, but we need to stay open. If we don’t, I don’t know how people who are not being paid are going to survive.” Given the mosque’s large space, he believed that at least six feet between congregants could be easily maintained. “On an average day, I might shake one hundred hands,” he said. “I’m somewhat of a germophobe, so I already use Purell.”
On March 19th, there were only eighteen diagnosed cases of covid-19 in the Philadelphia area. (Due to a lack of testing and the fact that many carriers are asymptomatic, the number of cases was probably much higher.) “Even if I multiply that by ten, that’s still only a hundred and eighty in a city of 1.5 million people,” he told me. “At least in my opinion, it’s not time to hit the bunkers yet.”
London coronavirus:
Why the city’s busiest mosque is still open for prayers
ByDanielle Manning
12:33, 17 MAR 2020
(Slight interruption –
UK Could Be Country Worst Affected by Coronavirus in Europe:
Govt Scientist
By Victoria Friedman 4/12/20
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/12/uk-could-be-country-worst-affected-coronavirus-europe-govt-scientist/ )
Continuing –
Despite the government advising Londoners to avoid unnecessary social contact, an East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre spokesperson confirmed today that it is open to the public.
The holy call to prayer will continue to fill the halls of London’s busiest mosque this morning (Tuesday, March 17), as it has done since it opened in 1985.
On a normal day, some 10,000 worshipers from all over East London attend the Whitechapel site across five daily prayers.
(Multiply the spread of that out.)
…
Addressing the mosque last week, Imam Shaykh Mohammed Mahmoud told the congregation not to panic and trust in Allah.
…
https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/london-coronavirus-citys-busiest-mosque-17930813
East London Mosque
I don’t see any “social distancing” do you?
oh no, say it ain’t so
Muslims have camel pee to cure them of the virus. Eye roll.
Allah protects them……no one protects non-believers…..and the whole aim of their death cult is to kill all non-believers.
Just can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturds!!!!! And yet when this is lifted all of those voters will vote in the same morons and stay in KY!!!!
….I fear you are right. My Mother used to say, “You can’t fix stupid.”
And Forrest Gump said: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
The people going to this church are stupid. Some will get sick and die. Others will spread the China Flu to other people some of whom will die later. Madness.
You are an idiot.
Thank you. I always consider the source. A black Baptist minister in Virginia who recently defied authorities to close and bragged about his full church just died of China Flu. His wife is now hospitalized. Their daughter is now begging people to avoid crowds and stay home. She is about to be an orphan. Exactly as I said would happen. I’m sure you approve of that.
Hey Karen, you know you can get the virus in grocery markets too right? While stocking up on your third load of toilet paper.
Meanwhile the stories I read said he was outspoken about the media hype. He loved his flock and his family. He took precautions because he said it was a dangerous virus but don’t let fear ruin your life.
He also had underlying health conditions. Which is about 80% of all reported deaths in America due to this virus.
So Karen…I absolutely do not want people to die from the virus. I am also against abortion, illegal immigration, government forced immigration from 3rd world shztholes, drinking and driving, texting and driving, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, flu, small pox, swine flu, SARS, Ebola, tuberculosis, gun violence, gangs, drug usage, crashing the economy, and libturd Karen’s.
Stack it all up Karen and pick your poison.
Your dishonesty is vapid and easily rebutted. Only in church can you not protect each other from this particular virus. That is your bullshzt message.
Idiot.
How so? Social distancing has been shown to work so who is the idiot?
So Karen,
you can social distance in HD, Walmart, Kroger’s, Lowe’s, Menard’s, hospitals, parks, essential businesses etc.
But there is no way you can social distance in a church? You can’t wear masks, gloves? Not attend if sick?
Idiot
cnn watcher
It’s a troll….just block and move on. :0)
It isn’t clear how the service was done at this church but a church service can be done in a way that maintains social distance standards and sanitizes to minimize the potential for the spread of the virus. If this were not true, we wouldn’t even be able to go grocery shopping or even conduct other business deemed essential by some bureaucrat without getting infected and driving the number of people infected higher than it is.
…they attended in their cars…they never came in contact with each other.
@ladywarrior (love that name)
It seems there were several churches that congregated. Near the beginning of this article, it said,
“Maryville Baptist Church appeared to have a near-full house for its Sunday service despite orders to avoid in-person services — and the heightened risk of catching COVID-19, the Louisville Courier Journal said.”
And the accompanying photo of empty cars in the parking lot with the officer jotting down VINs it seems to me, those people went inside. And when it says “appeared to “have a near-full house, that sounds like a church filled with people. But “full” could mean shoulder to shoulder or there could have been chairs that are spaced out like that done in Washington or markings could have been put on the pews for people to sit that followed social distancing rules even if they violate a 10 person limit like the way grocery stores do.
I think you are right. There was at least three incidents around at around Easter. I may be mixing up the one you cited with another one.
No matter which one it was ….we are a free people. And if those people felt they knew what they were doing….Big Brother doesn’t have a right to punish them for exercising their Constitutional rights…Freedom of assembly and Freedom of Religion.
And until they stop the 5 times a day prayers of the MUslims….they have no right to single out the Christians.
“Big Brother doesn’t have a right to punish them for exercising their Constitutional rights…Freedom of assembly and Freedom of Religion.” — our Rights shall not be infringed… they don’t come from the Government, they are from God and are thus unalienable and that is why our Bill of Rights instructs government not to infringe on those rights.
“And until they stop the 5 times a day prayers of the MUslims….they have no right to single out the Christians.”
Islam is a political ideology that uses religious rituals to control its members. In the past, we have outlawed “religions” because they advocate things that are unlawful such as polygamy and sex with children. Islam advocates both in addition to spousal abuse, FGM, and sex slaves. It should have been outlawed a long time ago and given what the Quran advocates, it should be outlawed today as unlawful as a religion. But not only that, it should be banned because it is a political ideology which advocates for the subjugation of non-Muslims and advocates sedition. So, it should be banned outright for many reason.
….so….how does that work? You’re sitting in your cars listening to the preacher….you’re not in contact with anyone.
You should actually read the article paid troll…it would make you look less stupid and uninformed.
Nails? Return to sender…
……excellent idea. But the law enforcement are only following orders…or face losing their jobs.
Boxes of nails should be mailed to to Beashears ……or scattered on the road in front of his house.
They follow orders? The 30 days of Ramadan start on April 23rd – Will Gov Beashears ORDER law enforcement to stand down?
The GESTAPO also followed orders in Germany and we all know how THAT turned out. Otherwise good people ended up following the pack of EVIL people only later to say, “IT WAS MY JOB” or ” I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS”.
Matthew 15:14 “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
I also believe that common sense, along with FAITH in Jesus Christ is the ultimate answer to EVERYTHING.
My church remained shuttered. A Catholic church. I am ashamed they remained shuttered.
All over a farce, a lie told by a “room full of experts” who are the dumbest among us.
Kudos to this church and others and shame on the police.
They wouldn’t dare harass the moslems like this.
Moslems stay/pray at home. Except the freaks in Pakistan, Iran. Whos sorry now?
Democrats are terrified of Muslims – the religion that dose not fear going to jail for killing Americans.
Liberals think that opening the doors to Islam’s Trojan horse will somehow save Liberals.
Ramadan Starts on April 23rd. World wide Ramadan always sees an increase in Islamic terrorism. Will American Muslims miss an opportunity to have Leftist Governor call for Martial law just to assist Bill Gates in making Trump look bad?
church gatherings are spreading covid-19, call it what it is domestic terrorism.
Try to contain your fear
“it” is a troll…..and not a very well informed one.
I assumed so, that’s why I post inane stupidity in return.
drama queen
no drama here …just da truth
Uhhhh…..church gatherings are not spreading the virus…..
And…..I didn’t see anything in your post that criticized the five times a day gathering of Muslims to pray….
And I far as I can see, you and the other trolls are the only ones spreading fear and domestic terrorism through fear and fake news.
So, you are either an atheist or a Muslim….possibly sitting up in Canada with all the other Soros/Clinton paid trolls.
all crazies who gather in groups including muslims should be shut down..btw the way i’m a christian.
The veneer of human civilization is very thin indeed. Trust me.
I was stationed at NAS Memphis when April 4th of ’69 rolled around, the first anniversary of the MLK assassination. From the safety of my barracks, I and many others watched on TV as the whole city descended into utter violent chaos.
The base was sealed off and there was a 75 mile radius around Memphis where sales of gasoline and alcohol sales were banned in an effort to stem the craziness.
I have never viewed the human animal the same way since.
I am from Memphis. I was pregnant with my second child at that time.
If you want to know how all that happened….it was carpetbaggers who came down from the North and started all of that. They weren’t local or from the South. Our Southern Blacks had no idea at the time that they were being used to advance socialism and communism.
I was 21 at the time, but there is ONLY good and evil in this world so it does not matter what TAG OR HOW you DESCRIBE them. IF YOU ARE EVIL, YOU WILL DO BAD THINGS. IF YOU ARE GOOD, YOU WILL DO GOOD THINGS. Describing someone other than GOOD or EVIL is irrelevant in the sight of God/Jesus. HE will not judge them for what you describe. GOD will judge a person by whether or not they are RIGHTEOUS (in right-standing with God, meaning, having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ) or UNRIGHTEOUS (their name NOT being in the BOOK OF LIFE).
Notice I used the all-inclusive term, “the human animal”, crossing off all superficial distinctions such as race or others. All were in action and it was frightful.
The gov’t has stepped over the line. The 1st Amendment is sacred!
SO IS COMMON SENSE, ALONG WITH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
These people should be arrested and fined. Completely irresponsible people. They are no better than the Muslims packing their mosques. Do they think praying will protect them? I have news for them, praying has never helped anybody throughout history. In any case is not ‘god’ supposed to be everywhere, so if they have to pray they can do it at home with their families. USA has almost one third of all cases worldwide
Spoken like the true atheist you are.
Are you really as f*cked up as you seem?
YES, but we all were BEFORE we found a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Hebrews 13:6 “So we may boldly say: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?””
“USA has almost one third of all cases worldwide” That’s only true if you believe ChiCom propaganda.
I don’t agree that they should be arrested, but it is irresponsible. Movie theaters and restaurants were closed to avoid people crowding together and potentially spreading the virus can’t these parishioners see this? The selective enforcement of this policy is also disgusting because I’ll bet not a single mosque anywhere in the USA is being inconvenienced by the policies enacted by various governors and mayors. Selective enforcement == persecution.
I am having difficulty knowing which side PG is on these days
It would be puzzling to you.
That the religious of Kentucky insist on meeting in large numbers in an enclosed area in a building, in direct contradiction of the rules for preventing the spread of this deadly virus/biological weapon, is proof positive of the danger of religious beliefs and practices.
Because of their surrender of their power of reason in favor of religious fantasies, these Kentucky believers are literally fighting to cause their own deaths.
“As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities” Voltaire.
I’d be more enthusiastic if the ban were enforced against f’ing muslums, but we allah know it won’t be.
They are giving the middle finger???? to The Tyrannical Government and this Chinese Wuhan virus, Hoax.
GOOD for Them!
There is a constitutional right to peaceful assembly AND religious freedom. I am so glad these believers chose to gather to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus. My pastors chose to go along with the government despite our faith in God’s healing and protection just because they knew some people might genuinely not have experience with exercising that level of faith. I am in a high risk group just due to age. I take some precautions and plenty of high quality supplements, but I am not afraid. The government seems to be unaware that we have this wonderful immune system.
Your pastors missed an incredible teaching moment about the power of faith. Suggest you hire new pastors are go to another church.
I agree with you and sincerely believe this is precisely when churches should have been open and declared Psalm 91 applies IF you are abiding in Christ and He is abiding in you. But this is the first church I have ever liked. I had avoided church for years while also being in fellowship and service with other believers. I grew up with religion, not Jesus and not transformation. The best time of learning is often alone with the Bible and the Holy Spirit.
Remind me to stay out of Kentucky….won’t spend vacation dollars there ever again.
It would be awesome if someone would follow up and see if any of the church goers got sick after attending the services in their cars……and then follow up and see how many officers putting out nails and taking down license numbers got sick.
Those officers had the right to refuse to follow unconstitutional orders. They chose not to….
People of Kentucky……you know what to do…..recall Bershears….get yourselves a decent, God Fearing Governor…
“Those officers had the right to refuse to follow unconstitutional orders. They chose not to….“
They took an oath to defend the Constitution. I know I did when sworn in, just words to most I guess…
Well DemoRats be that way sometimes, same in Michigan, you can buy lottery tickets but no seed or garden hoses. These people are sick and lust for power.
I am so proud of the Kentucky State Police …. My, what Good Little German Soldiers they all are!!!
It looks like the can all be counted on when the cattle cars are ready to be loaded with all those fine Kentucky Sheep.
“We were only following orders” Nazis at the Nuremburg trials
Those that think it could never happen in America are obviously not students of history and human nature…
The preaching of the Cross is “foolishness” to them that are perishing”….
Don’t they have some REAL criminals they should be chasing?
Shame on those State Troopers, the new Brown Shirts.
Execute the Brown Shirts. They’re traitors.
As a Canadian I can say that we are expected to be subject to the Jackboots and their Overlords but I always wonder why, in the United States, with the freedoms granted you by the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, you have those freedoms taken from you so easily. Doesn’t your Constitution say, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” So your governments at all levels actually can “MAKE LAWS RESPECTING, etc. Didn’t someone in the United States say something like, “Never sacrifice your freedoms for the sake of safety.”