I didn't get to the church on time, and when I did get there it was closed:
"Churches that fought to reopen are being forced to close again and grapple with whether it is even possible to worship together safely."
I don't want to get preachy; however, Amendment I reads 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.
The brave men who risked their fortunes and very lives to create this nation so many take for granted (choking up) put RELIGION as the VERY FIRST CONCERN (take a back seat, pre$$). I mean, I called the Google up and I get a handful of $elf_$erving ma$$ media sites begging for money and whining. The whoreporate pre$$titutes and propaganda-pu$hers know no shame.
Yet here we are, at the dawn of the 21st century, and the right for which they so valiantly fought has been eviscerated -- as have all the others above. The First Amendment is no more. Do have redress? No. Peacefully assemble? Are you serious? Oh, right, you can violently assemble, burn, and loot, that's okay -- unless youse white!
The problem, of cour$e, is money -- as the Great Pastor points out. Can't risk that tax-free $tatu$ by stirring up the flock to fight for their church and against Godless tyranny and what can only be described as COMMUNISM!
It will be interesting to see which types of houses of worship are allowed to stand going forward. I suspect it will be like the Soviet Union 100 years ago. Christian churches and Mooslim(sic to avoid algos) will be destroyed but the $ynagogues will be left standing.
"Churches were eager to reopen. Now they are a major source of coronavirus cases" by Kate Conger and Jack Healy New York Times, July 8, 2020
PENDLETON, Ore. — Weeks after President Trump demanded that America’s shuttered houses of worship be allowed to reopen, new outbreaks of the coronavirus are surging through churches across the country where services have resumed.
The virus has infiltrated Sunday sermons, meetings of ministers, and Christian youth camps in Colorado and Missouri. It has struck churches that reopened cautiously with face masks and social distancing in the pews, as well as some that defied lockdowns and refused to heed new limits on numbers of worshippers.
I looked above and see that the devil's spew is coming from the usual suspect.
Pastors and their families have tested positive, as have church ushers, front-door greeters, and hundreds of churchgoers. In Texas, about 50 people contracted the virus after a pastor told congregants they could once again hug one another. In Florida, a teenage girl died last month after attending a youth party at her church.
They should have protested and occupied a city instead.
This whole f**king thing is so damn obvious at this time.
This is TRYANNy, and it no longer has anything to do with COVID!
It's a much larger agenda, one that is challenging God himself.
More than 650 coronavirus cases have been linked to nearly 40 churches and religious events across the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, with many of them erupting over the last month as Americans resumed their prepandemic activities, according to a New York Times database.
“There’s a very fine line between protecting the health and safety of people, and protecting the right to worship,” said George Murdock, a county commissioner in northeastern Oregon, where the largest outbreak in the state has been traced to a Pentecostal church in a neighboring county. “It’s one we’ve been walking very nervously all along.”
Actually, there is not. The right to worship is inviolate, or should be. That was amongst the Founding Fathers chief concerns, and I suppose part of the memory-erasing statue desecration is aimed at just that (and, in fact, churches are not being hit by this God-awful evil that plagues this planet right now, and I don't mean COVID).
While thousands of churches, synagogues and, mosques across the country have been meeting virtually or outside on lawns and in parking lots to protect their members from the virus, the right to hold services within houses of worship became a political battleground as the country crawled out of lockdown this spring. In May, the president declared places of worship part of an “essential service” and threatened to override any governor’s orders keeping them closed — though it was uncertain he had the power to do so, but now, as the virus rages through Texas, Arizona, and other evangelical bastions of the South and West, some churches that fought to reopen are being forced to close again and grapple with whether it is even possible to worship together safely.
You know, this "journali$m" is devil's spew. It's lies upon lies upon lies. We need to sing louder -- which is why choirs have been banned by the tyrant governor of Calif**kua.
“Our churches have followed protocols — masks, go in one door and out the other, social distancing,” said Cynthia Fierro Harvey, a bishop with the United Methodist Church in Louisiana, where three churches closed again over the last week, “and still people have tested positive.”
Well, the tests are shit (forgive me, Lord) and they don't even identify COVID-19! A common cold will gain a positive result.
As for these church leaders the Slimes contacted, they are all doing the devil's work.
I mean, Christ, we all know about the Catholics. Talk about centuries of evil.
Other congregations have remained defiant in the face of rising infections, saying that state rules limiting service sizes infringe on their constitutional right to worship.
I knew there was something in the air.
Some Christian groups objected to a new California rule that restricts singing in places of worship. In Nevada, the Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley is challenging state rules that cap religious gatherings at 50 people while allowing casinos and other reopening businesses to operate without similar limits.
The $tate's very actions prove how f**king evil they truly are.
They restrict God and goodness while wor$hipping mammon.
Taking chances with their judgment.
“They’re downplaying the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans and suggesting it’s more important to go to the gym than to go to church,” said Kristen K. Waggoner, general counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative religious-liberty group that brought the Nevada lawsuit and has challenged other state restrictions on religious gatherings. She said that the vast majority of churches meet or exceed federal health guidelines for reopening, but as new cases and clusters have emerged in recent weeks from Florida to Kansas to Hawaii, public-health experts have emphasized that, even with social distancing, the virus can easily spread through the air when hymns are sung and sermons preached inside closed spaces. One of the world’s first mass coronavirus outbreaks occurred in a secretive South Korean church.
Between the counterproductive "advice" on the oxygen-depriving masks and this "social distancing" crap, those "public health experts" have shown themselves to be evil beyond belief.
Those that push the lies that further agenda in pre$$, that is. All across this world, brave physicians are standing up and have stood up and have exposed the evilness and the lies behind this abominable plan. The ma$$ media ignores them.
“It’s an ideal setting for transmission,” said Carlos del Rio, an infectious disease expert at Emory University, referring to church gatherings. “You have a lot of people in a closed space, and they’re speaking loudly; they’re singing. All those things are exactly what you don’t want.”
Okay!
That excuses the sackers of cities; however, why can we not go to the baseball or football game, huh?
HUH?
Like all demons, they end upon tripping over their own salivating tongues.
Disgusting.
There were just six recorded cases of the coronavirus in Union County, in rural northeastern Oregon, when the Lighthouse United Pentecostal Church announced its reopening May 22 in an Instagram post that also cited Trump’s remarks about reopening churches, but now, the county has recorded 356 cases, many of them traced to the church.
The outbreak is thought to have been seeded by a wedding there, which drew attendees from out of town, said Dan Satterwhite, a pastor at an affiliated Lighthouse Church in the neighboring town of Pendleton. The pastor of the Island City church contracted the virus, and his wife was hospitalized, Satterwhite said.
Yup, going to have to build a stone ring around the city (with an expre$$ channel for illegal immigrant labor, of course).
In his own church, Satterwhite said, congregants were social distancing and mostly wearing masks. He had initially livestreamed services on Facebook, but some congregants begged to return to church, and others did not have reliable Internet access.
The tech Gawd abandoned them?
“I am trying to do the right thing. I know a lot of people don’t feel this way, but those that do, feel that church is essential,” Satterwhite said. “There’s more to be considered there than just the physical health; there’s also the spiritual health.”
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I thought our governor backed down, but I find that was just another agenda-pushing, predictive-programming, pre$$ lie in order to manipulate public mind into believing something that is false (like WMD).
As for the $eparation of Church and $tate that our forefathers were so concerned about?
"After lobbying, Catholic Church won $1.4 billion in virus aid" by Reese Dunklin and Michael Rezendes Associated Press, July 10, 2020
NEW YORK — The US Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
The Constitution is in ashes, and we now have a STATE CHURCH.
The corpses in the tombs must be spinning at warp speed.
The church’s haul may have reached — or even exceeded — $3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the US government’s pandemic relief efforts, an Associated Press analysis of federal data released this week found.
They want the pervert priests to misdirect their flock, which I'm sure they will do willingly.
Houses of worship and faith-based organizations that promote religious beliefs aren’t usually eligible for money from the US Small Business Administration, but as the economy plummeted and jobless rates soared, Congress let faith groups and other nonprofits tap into the Paycheck Protection Program, a $659 billion fund created to keep Americans employed.
I'm just wondering where the Joo continent is here. They usually get upset about $hit like this. I gue$$ they got bribe money, too.
By aggressively promoting the program and marshaling resources to navigate its shifting rules, Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools, and other ministries have so far received approval for at least 3,500 forgivable loans, AP found. The Archdiocese of New York, for example, received 15 loans worth at least $28 million just for its top executive offices. Its iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue was approved for at least $1 million.
(Blog editor throws hands in air)
Paying them to KEEP CHURCHES CLOSED is what they are doing!
Do Americans understand that this is what they fought against for 50 years in the Cold War against the Soviet Union?
A loan of at least $2 million went to the diocese covering Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., where a church investigation revealed last year that then-bishop Michael Bransfield embezzled funds and made sexual advances toward young priests.
Simply being eligible for low-interest loans was a new opportunity, but the church couldn’t have been approved for so many loans — which the government will forgive if they are used for wages, rent, and utilities — without a second break.
Religious groups persuaded the Trump administration to free them from a rule that typically disqualifies an applicant with more than 500 workers. Without this preferential treatment, many Catholic dioceses would be ineligible because — between their head offices, parishes, and other affiliates — they exceed the 500-person cap.
“That favoritism was worth billions of dollars,” said Micah Schwartzman, a University of Virginia law professor specializing in constitutional issues and religion who has studied the Paycheck Protection Program.
The AP tally of how much the church collected, between $1.4 billion and $3.5 billion, is an undercount. The Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference surveyed members and reported that about 9,000 Catholic entities received loans. That is nearly three times the number of Catholic recipients AP could identify.
I gue$$ you didn't have God on your side, those whose businesses and dreams have been destroyed; otherwise, you would have gotten the money you needed.
AP couldn’t find more Catholic beneficiaries because the government’s data, released after pressure from Congress and a lawsuit from news outlets including the AP, didn’t name recipients of loans under $150,000 — a category in which many smaller churches would fall, and because the government released only ranges of loan amounts, it wasn’t possible to be more precise.
Gotta love that transparency!
The Paycheck Protection Program was open to all religious groups, and many took advantage. Evangelical advisers to President Trump received loans, as did many big-name churches.
There is no doubt that state shelter-in-place orders disrupted houses of worship and businesses alike. Masses were canceled, which deprived parishes of expected revenue and contributed to layoffs in some dioceses, but other problems were self-inflicted. Long before the pandemic, scores of dioceses faced financial pressure because of a dramatic rise in recent clergy sex-abuse claims.
The scandals that erupted in 2018 reverberated throughout the world, propelled by a damning grand jury report about abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses which revealed bishops had long covered for predator priests.
Seems like that Pennsylvania case is down the poop shoot, and is the brave female AG who tried to expose the child porn ring in Pennsylvania still in jail?
As the church again reckoned with its longtime crisis, dioceses and religious orders shelled out $282 million during the year ending June 2019 — up from $106 million just five years earlier.
Awww, the poor church had to shell out for keeping the lid in that evil.
Paycheck Protection loan recipients included about 40 dioceses that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years paying victims. AP’s review found these dioceses were approved for about $200 million, though the value is likely much higher.
One was the New York Archdiocese. Spokesperson Joseph Zwilling said the archdiocese simply wanted to be “treated equally and fairly under the law.” When asked about the waiver from the 500-employee cap that religious organizations received, Zwilling deferred to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Is he white?
A spokesperson for the bishops’ conference acknowledged its officials lobbied for the paycheck program, but said the organization wasn’t tracking what dioceses and Catholic agencies received.
“These loans are an essential lifeline to help faith-based organizations to stay afloat and continue serving those in need during this crisis,” spokesperson Chieko Noguchi said in a written statement. According to AP’s data analysis, the church and all its organizations reported retaining at least 407,900 jobs with the money they were awarded.
Noguchi also wrote the conference felt strongly that “the administration write and implement this emergency relief fairly for all applicants.”
Not every Catholic institution sought government loans. The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy based in Stamford, Conn., told AP that even though its parishes experienced a decline in donations, none of the organizations in its five-state territory submitted applications.
Deacon Steve Wisnowski, a financial officer for the eparchy, said pastors and church managers used their rainy-day savings and that parishioners responded generously with donations. As a result, parishes “did not experience a severe financial crisis.”
Wisnowski said his superiors understood the program was for “organizations and businesses truly in need of assistance.”
God ble$$ him!
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Okay, all together now:
Job bias laws do not protect teachers in Catholic schools, Supreme Court rules
The vote was 7 to 2, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor in dissent.
Virgin Mary statue burned outside Dorchester church to be cleaned
They then held a vigil while distancing.
May God help us all, dear readers!
UPDATE:
Churches Report Chicago Officials are Threatening to Bulldoze Their Facilities for Not Complying with COVID-19 Mandates
Absolutely heinous.
