Kentucky’s komrades in office “allowed” churches to reopen this past Sunday “provided they abide by guidelines stipulated by the state, which require limited attendance, social distancing measures, face coverings, and no singing during services by congregation or choir.”
The rationalization for that last lies in the supposition that vocal music “creates a higher risk of spreading infectious particles.” I’ll presume that this “medical” opinion eschews fact as thoroughly as does the six-feet of “anti-social distancing” that Our Rulers pulled out of their cloven behinds.
There are a slew of other stipulations, too, all of them anti-constitutional. They also violate Scripture in that they nurture a delusion. We are called to truth and light; Bible-believing churches ought not cooperate with the lies of coronapoalypse any more than they would “marry” Adam and Steve (or at least, they would have formerly refused to wed sodomites: should Governor Gay command them to do so now, wanna bet Parson Goat merely asks whether the happy couple wants the ceremony live-streamed?).
Some overly optimistic serfs might applaud the fact that “Two federal judges issued rulings Friday in favor of Kentucky churches that want to hold in-person worship services, and a third court issued a similar ruling on Saturday.” But far from striking a blow for liberty, these decisions tighten the shackles by assuming the State’s authority supersedes the Church’s—
“Tabernacle Baptist Church wants to gather for corporate worship. … And they want to invoke the Constitution’s protection on this point,” [Judge] Van Tatenhove wrote in his opinion and order. “But the governor, by executive order, has put a stop to that. He can do that [emphasis added], but he must have a compelling reason …”
Indeed, even Komrade Beshear recognizes that he and the Court agree: after one such passing of judicial gas, the Komrade’s
office … issued a statement, saying that “the Sixth Circuit decision supports what the Governor has said all along.
And it certainly did.
“While Maryville Baptist claimed that the Governor banned drive-in services, he clearly did not. The Governor has allowed and even encouraged hundreds of drive-in services across Kentucky. He explicitly encouraged them for Easter at his daily news conferences and on calls with local leaders and clergy [Emphasis triumphantly added: more evidence that Parson Goat and the political class are in cahoots]. What the Sixth Circuit decided is that drive-in services are okay, but the Governor’s order prohibiting in-person services remains in effect. That has been the Governor’s exact policy since the beginning.”
Some of that is political face-saving, true. But most of it is a confession that the judicial branch is doing what it ever has: strengthening the executive and legislative branches’ stranglehold on us.
12:35 pm on May 12, 2020
