Government has ordered American’s to stay in their homes. Ordered American’s to stay six feet away from each other.
Now, in Mississippi, American’s are being threatened with a $500 fine for going to church, in their cars.
The Mayor of Greenville on the Mississippi River across from Arkansas put out the following dictate recently:
“Churches are strongly encouraged to hold services via Facebook Live, Zoom, Free Conference Call, and any and all other social media, streaming and telephonic platforms.”
Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons made the decree despite the face the Mississippi governor’s shelter in place order says nothing about banning drive in church services.
The move comes as a drive in church in Louisville, Kentucky recently won a federal restraining order allowing drive-in churches to hold services.
Video from Pastor Hamilton of King James Bible Baptist Church in Greenville, MS. Church tried the “drive-in” method of holding services & were targeted due to the Mayor issuing an order prohibiting such services. Watch as an officer tells the Pastor that his rights are suspended. pic.twitter.com/zLdT6Qd8ew
— Nick Short ---- (@PoliticalShort) April 11, 2020Fox News obtained comment from Kelly Shackelford, president of the First Liberty Institute who argued against the order claiming “It’s just massively unconstitutional.”
Shackelford continued, “It targets churches in a way that it targets no other group,” he said. “Cars in parking lots are fine. It’s only a crime if the cars in the parking lot are at the church parking lot.”
Meanwhile attorney’s for the Temple Baptist Church have filed a lawsuit against the Mayor’s executive order.
Despite that, Greenville Police ticketed and threatened parishioners at both churches with fines of $500 and ordered them to leave the premises immediately.
