A federal judge delivered a blow to Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s (D) ban on church gathering Saturday, allowing two local churches to conduct in-person, though socially-distanced, services.
A Trump appointee. That’s all that needs to be said.
A Moscow Mitch judge - John Broomes was confirmed by the US Senate for this district position on April 12, 2018.
“Plaintiffs are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the form of denial of their constitutional right to the free exercise of their religion,” wrote U.S. District Judge John Broomes in his ruling, adding that the restrictions on religious gatherings “are more severe than restrictions on some comparable non-religious activities.”
Oh, for Pete’s sake, I’ve been able to attend all the services I want or need every Sunday because my congregation leaderships are responsibly offering on-line, same-time services or You Tube services that I can watch at any point in time. I’ve been attending all or part of three services for the last two weeks.
This is just stupid. This is what we get from #ditchMoscowMitch’s appointments. Stupid.
Well, hate to say it, but once they get this far, they probably won’t stick to the distancing rules either. Because Jeebus.
It’s going to take us a generation to come back out of the Middles Ages.
Your right about that.
““This is not about religion” $
Not true - there are many more churches who get what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. It’s only the rabid evangelicals who, at this rate, will die out before they can do too much more damage.
Perhaps the good people of Kansas could stay home and work on their personal relationships with God and Christ, or do as you and millions more are doing (and many did even before the COVID-19 crisis) and take advantage of televised and streaming religious services, rather than engaging in their perceived need for same-room expressions of faith or the possible real reason for this - in-person offerings, which may be bigger than on-line giving (although I don’t know if that’s necessarily the case) or the desired political support for Trump and others.
So movie theaters, concert venues, malls, sporting events, libraries, and schools don’t have to follow the same rules? How are they being singled out? A Muslim group ought to sue too, see what the judge says about them.
Hopefully before Nov.
Actually, I was referring to the evangelicals. Who are the ones pushing the fight against the bans. The sane ones have taken appropriate actions.
We’re on the same page!
Soon judges are going to be dealing a blow to Governor’s mitigation efforts across the board. The DOJ is going to get involved and just sue them out of their 10th Amendment rights.
Stay away if at all possible. If forced into contact, protect yourself.
Win Win
You get to be with Jebus all that much sooner
It’s just unfortunate you are going to drag a few atheists and other non believers with you
One can assume that the alms basins will have a sign saying “Deposit Stimulus Checks Here!”
Welcome to the Trump Death Panel, Judge.
Hope you attend church regularly…
Yep
Commentators were making a point over the weekend,people flying Trump banners at these demonstrations
were violating Trumps distancing policy.
I simply don’t understand why articles don’t routinely mention this fact.
WIth our broken Trumpified judiciary, failure to identify a judge’s appointment source is as careless as mentioning a Congresscritter without automatically mentioning state and party affiliation.
Ceterum censeo: Fuck you, Mitch McConnell.