What purpose does the constitution have if governors can make church illegal

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Church is illegal? Where?

The free exercise of religion is illegal in the USA at the moment you kenyan shitstain

It is? My Bishop cancelled our church, not the governor.

Because the hit men attacked Italy to secure the Popes and Bishops obedience to the deep state

WTF are you blabbering about? That has nothing to do with my post! Knock off the bong!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

The constitution. Got burned decades ago by several incoming presidents,we are in martial law now thanks to trump cause he made it official that the evil fema runs the country now instead of the president,fucking traiter

Nah when martial law happens they will arrest anyone saying what I am now and throw me in the FEMA camp with the terminally infected to die, just like Russia or North Korea

No, you will be placed in the "funny farm" where you apparently belong.

 

[HenryBHough]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Constitution?

America has had NO "constitution" since Obama shredded and smoked the original for its hemp content.

 

[HappyJoy]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Church is illegal? Where?

The free exercise of religion is illegal in the USA at the moment you kenyan shitstain

It is? My Bishop cancelled our church, not the governor.

Because the hit men attacked Italy to secure the Bishops obedience to the deep state

Sorry ya' little shit, I hadn't gotten that far. Ok.

Amendment 1
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 .

Are you allowed to hold church in a burning building? Is government allowed to hold churches to a higher level, even ignore laws that others? Wouldn't that be making laws that respecting an establishment of religion?

Yes you can hold church services in a burning building and even with live rattlesnakes

Really

No, you can't. The state has the right to close down a burning building so that no one can enter, same with one that is condemned.

No church buildings have been condemned, only the free right of religion is condemned. Sacraments can not be performed over the internet, not communion anyway. Not as Jesus demonstrated at the last supper

If a state condemned a building do you think a church would have the right to hold services there?

Even better, because personally if a group of people want to willfully off themselves then I'm OK with that. What if a religion felt that they wanted to push that burning building over a cliff over a village below endangering others not belonging to this religion, do they have the right to do that?

 

[Dragonlady]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

500 message in one week, all telling us what a great job Trump is doing covid. Now you're promoting civil war.

 

[HappyJoy]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Church is illegal? Where?

The free exercise of religion is illegal in the USA at the moment you kenyan shitstain

It is? My Bishop cancelled our church, not the governor.

Because the hit men attacked Italy to secure the Popes and Bishops obedience to the deep state

WTF are you blabbering about? That has nothing to do with my post! Knock off the bong!

Hey, you get a little taste of what everyone from just right of center to uber liberals have been dealing with. I hope you enjoy it immensely.

 

[HappyJoy]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

500 message in one week, all telling us what a great job Trump is doing covid. Now you're promoting civil war.

They want a redo of our last civil war. Slightly different boundaries but not much else changed.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

500 message in one week, all telling us what a great job Trump is doing covid. Now you're promoting civil war.

They want a redo of our last civil war. Slightly different boundaries but not much else changed.

No reason to "redo it". We won.

 

[HappyJoy]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

500 message in one week, all telling us what a great job Trump is doing covid. Now you're promoting civil war.

They want a redo of our last civil war. Slightly different boundaries but not much else changed.

No reason to "redo it". We won.

Sure, bud.

 

[Lysistrata]

I can't believe that somebody is trying to pull off the "religious persecution" bit again. Most religions aren't complaining. It's just the same morons who usually whine; the theatrical ones who like to put on a show.

Most religions are not complaining because they are in fear of the virus toting hit men

How stupid of you. Most religions are not complaining because their adherents know better. I like what the government of Israel did. There is a city of Orthodox Jews who insisted on attending public gatherings. The Israeli government just said "fine" and simply shut the city off so that no one can leave there. Good show.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

One other point. The Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ". The delineation of emergency powers granted to the state's governors makes no distinction regarding religion. Therefore, they do not violate the First Amendment. Were the laws changed so that religious facilities were protected from the exercise of emergency powers, that exclusion WOULD be a violation of the First Amendment.

You are not correct.

First of all, you and most other people making similar statements fail to recognize that is there is no "pandemic exception" to the fundamental liberties safeguarded by the Constitution. As several federal courts of appeal have recently emphasized in the present COVID-19 context, “individual rights secured by the Constitution do not disappear during a public health crisis.” In re Abbott, --- F.3d ---, 2020 WL 1685929, at *6 (5th Cir. Apr. 7, 2020). The protections in the Bill of Rights are always in force to restrain government action, even during a pandemic. And although the Supreme Court has held that the government is authorized to take certain temporary (and I emphasize temporary) action that might limit an individual's liberty interest in the face of an emergency that poses "great danger" to the public, those measures are scrutinized for whether they represent the least restrictive means necessary to accomplish a lawful government purpose, and whether the measures invade fundamental rights secured by the Constitution.

To that end, the Supreme Court mandates that federal courts intervene to strike down such a law "If [the] statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety ... is, beyond all question, a plain, palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law." Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 29 (1905).

As it applies to the subject at hand, the "Free Exercise Clause" of the First Amendment guarantees to all Americans the “right to believe and profess whatever religious doctrine [they] desire[],” as well as their right to act on these beliefs through gathering for public worship or through other acts of religious exercise in their daily lives. Empl’t Div. v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872, 877 (1990). The test for determining whether a law unconstitutionally invades the First Amendment rights of religious believers or their practices under the Free Exercise Clause, as articulated by the Supreme Court, directs federal courts to “survey meticulously” the text and operation of a challenged law to ensure that it is neutral and of general applicability. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520, 534 (1993).

As SCOTUS has explained, a law is not neutral if it treats the same conduct as lawful when undertaken for secular reasons but unlawful when undertaken for religious reasons, or visits “gratuitous restrictions on religious conduct,” among other things. Id. at 533-35, 538. A law is not generally applicable if “in a selective manner it imposes burdens only on conduct motivated by religious belief," including by “fail[ing] to prohibit nonreligious conduct that endangers [its] interests in a similar or greater degree than ... does the prohibited conduct.” Id. at 534.

In other words, under this test, as applied in the COVID-19 context, any state or local law that restricts a citizen's First Amendment right to religious exercise will be stricken down as unconstitutional--even when authorized under emergency powers--where it can be shown that the distinction between nonreligious essential services and religious essential services, as applied under the law, is not both neutral and generally applicable.

That is precisely what happened in Mississippi recently, where the city sent police to issue $500 fines and shut down a drive-in church service which exceeded the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines as congregants were required to remain in their cars with the windows rolled up, while at the same time permitting restaurants to operate which allowed citizens to have their windows rolled down. A federal lawsuit was then filed by the church/attendants, and the DOJ promptly intervened on their behalf citing the above principles. Just last week the city dropped all of the $500 citations it issued, conceding its error in an effort to limit its damages (though that will certainly not eliminate the claims pending against it for its clear violation of federal/constitutional rights).

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Ignorant nonsense.

No one is making church ‘illegal.’

The C19 health and safety protocols are applied to all venues equally, to all religions, faiths, and beliefs equally.

Religious practice is not being prohibited, no specific religion is being targeted for restriction, the health and safety protocols are perfectly appropriate and warranted and in no manner ‘violate’ the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Yeah, it's awful how the government is pulling down all those online church services, isn't it?

The constitution specifies that anyone may practice their religion as they see fit.

So yes online church services are an awful violation of the constitution

Got that old woman?

Also wrong.

The First Amendment prohibits government from seeking to preempt or prohibit religious practice based on opposition to that particular religion in an effort to politically disadvantage followers of that religion.

That’s not the case with the C19 health and safety protocols.

All religions are subject to the same guidelines, not just Christianity.

Because the protocols are based on scientific facts and evidence, because they’re appropriate and warranted to safeguard the health and safety of the American people, and because the protocols don’t disadvantage religious expression, the protocols are perfectly Constitutional.

 

[esalla]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Church is illegal? Where?

The free exercise of religion is illegal in the USA at the moment you kenyan shitstain

It is? My Bishop cancelled our church, not the governor.

Because the hit men attacked Italy to secure the Popes and Bishops obedience to the deep state

WTF are you blabbering about? That has nothing to do with my post! Knock off the bong!

Again your attention deficit disorder is not my problem. There is no pandemic as daily deaths are not up, as people die every day. This is a manufactured crisis, but you will never know

As usual

 

[esalla]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

The constitution. Got burned decades ago by several incoming presidents,we are in martial law now thanks to trump cause he made it official that the evil fema runs the country now instead of the president,fucking traiter

Nah when martial law happens they will arrest anyone saying what I am now and throw me in the FEMA camp with the terminally infected to die, just like Russia or North Korea

No, you will be placed in the "funny farm" where you apparently belong.

That's about what the FBI said before pissing into the wind publicly

 

[esalla]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Church is illegal? Where?

The free exercise of religion is illegal in the USA at the moment you kenyan shitstain

It is? My Bishop cancelled our church, not the governor.

Because the hit men attacked Italy to secure the Bishops obedience to the deep state

Sorry ya' little shit, I hadn't gotten that far. Ok.

Amendment 1
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 .

Are you allowed to hold church in a burning building? Is government allowed to hold churches to a higher level, even ignore laws that others? Wouldn't that be making laws that respecting an establishment of religion?

Yes you can hold church services in a burning building and even with live rattlesnakes

Really

No, you can't. The state has the right to close down a burning building so that no one can enter, same with one that is condemned.

No church buildings have been condemned, only the free right of religion is condemned. Sacraments can not be performed over the internet, not communion anyway. Not as Jesus demonstrated at the last supper

If a state condemned a building do you think a church would have the right to hold services there?

Even better, because personally if a group of people want to willfully off themselves then I'm OK with that. What if a religion felt that they wanted to push that burning building over a cliff over a village below endangering others not belonging to this religion, do they have the right to do that?

What churches caught the covid and were structurally condemned?

All you are doing is making up nonsense to fuel your delusions

 

[esalla]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

500 message in one week, all telling us what a great job Trump is doing covid. Now you're promoting civil war.

They are formally discussing suspending the constitution, which is what they need to do before issuing arm tattoo numbers

 

[esalla]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

500 message in one week, all telling us what a great job Trump is doing covid. Now you're promoting civil war.

They want a redo of our last civil war. Slightly different boundaries but not much else changed.

Are you in line now for your arm tattoo and or implant identifier so you can be part of the new World order

 

[JoeB131]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Your argument would make sense if they were shutting down the Catholic Churches but letting the Mormon Church stay open.

No one is telling the Churches what they have to preach or dictating dogma... just that you can't gather and spread the disease...

This isn't complicated.

Look, man, you can grovel in front of your imaginary sky man at home...

 

[esalla]

? The constitution is no longer worth the paper that it is written on.

Time for a real hot and nasty civil war or as it be end to religious persecution

Your argument would make sense if they were shutting down the Catholic Churches but letting the Mormon Church stay open.

No one is telling the Churches what they have to preach or dictating dogma... just that you can't gather and spread the disease...

This isn't complicated.

Look, man, you can grovel in front of your imaginary sky man at home...

Wrong the constitution allows that all churches be allowed to have services as they see fit. Catholics can not be baptized with fake internet holy water or break the bread of Christ on TV. None of the stay at home orders are legal either, however the deep state is killing tens of thousands who do not obey the master plan