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Well, Donald is getting desperate early, I wonder what will be the fate of those churches that open and pack em in, will the Lord smite them down in a month! The Lord helps those who help themselves, but I imagine he has killed a few fools too. Those that follow Cheeto Jesus, don't follow Jesus and might meet him soon, or so it is said, I mean people are saying...
Divide the country, divide the medical community and now divide the religious one too, well one thing I guess Cheeto Jesus will do, he'll separate the sheep from the goats as they say.
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Trump Is Desperately Trying To Escalate The Culture Wars By Demanding Churches Open
The president, despite not appearing to have such authority, threatened to override governors’ coronavirus measures—as his press secretary suggested journalists want houses of worship to stay closed. “Hideous and inappropriate,” one shot back.
President Donald Trump, deeming houses of worship “essential places that provide essential services,” called Friday for governors to allow them to reopen immediately—regardless of whether he actually has the authority to impose such an order. In an impromptu press briefing Friday afternoon, Trump criticized governors who deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics essential while “leaving out churches and other houses of worship,” something the president called “an injustice” that he is “correcting” by identifying them as essential. As the New York Times reports, Trump called upon governors to allow places of faith “to open right now for this weekend,” threatening that “if they don’t do it, I will override the governors.”
Legal experts questioned the constitutional merits of Trump’s order. “The president does not have the unilateral authority to override a governor’s decision temporarily to prohibit the assembly of church congregants because of Covid-19,” J. Michael Luttig, a former Republican administration official and circuit appeals court judge, told the Times. Former Obama administration official Harold Hongju Koh said that “there is no legal compulsion of the state governors to comply” with a statement Trump makes—even when he calls it an “order.” The ACLU’s Anthony Romero dismissed Trump’s statement as “more like political grandstanding than any actual enforcement of laws protecting religious freedom,” according to Politico.
But beyond the lack of constitutional authority, the Times’s Peter Baker writes that the president is speaking out “on an issue important to a critical part of his electoral base at a time when his support has been eroding” and embracing the “political priorities” of evangelicals and conservative religious voters, the turnout of which Trump will rely on in this year’s election. Never mind, he notes, that Trump himself “rarely goes to church, displays only a passing familiarity with the Bible, previously supported abortion rights, has been married three times and paid hush money to a pornographic film actress.”
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Divide the country, divide the medical community and now divide the religious one too, well one thing I guess Cheeto Jesus will do, he'll separate the sheep from the goats as they say.
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Trump Is Desperately Trying To Escalate The Culture Wars By Demanding Churches Open
The president, despite not appearing to have such authority, threatened to override governors’ coronavirus measures—as his press secretary suggested journalists want houses of worship to stay closed. “Hideous and inappropriate,” one shot back.
Trump Is Desperately Trying To Escalate The Culture Wars By Demanding Churches Open
The president, despite not appearing to have such authority, threatened to override governors’ coronavirus measures—as his press secretary suggested journalists want houses of worship to stay closed. “Hideous and inappropriate,” one shot back.
President Donald Trump, deeming houses of worship “essential places that provide essential services,” called Friday for governors to allow them to reopen immediately—regardless of whether he actually has the authority to impose such an order. In an impromptu press briefing Friday afternoon, Trump criticized governors who deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics essential while “leaving out churches and other houses of worship,” something the president called “an injustice” that he is “correcting” by identifying them as essential. As the New York Times reports, Trump called upon governors to allow places of faith “to open right now for this weekend,” threatening that “if they don’t do it, I will override the governors.”
Legal experts questioned the constitutional merits of Trump’s order. “The president does not have the unilateral authority to override a governor’s decision temporarily to prohibit the assembly of church congregants because of Covid-19,” J. Michael Luttig, a former Republican administration official and circuit appeals court judge, told the Times. Former Obama administration official Harold Hongju Koh said that “there is no legal compulsion of the state governors to comply” with a statement Trump makes—even when he calls it an “order.” The ACLU’s Anthony Romero dismissed Trump’s statement as “more like political grandstanding than any actual enforcement of laws protecting religious freedom,” according to Politico.
But beyond the lack of constitutional authority, the Times’s Peter Baker writes that the president is speaking out “on an issue important to a critical part of his electoral base at a time when his support has been eroding” and embracing the “political priorities” of evangelicals and conservative religious voters, the turnout of which Trump will rely on in this year’s election. Never mind, he notes, that Trump himself “rarely goes to church, displays only a passing familiarity with the Bible, previously supported abortion rights, has been married three times and paid hush money to a pornographic film actress.”
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