A pastor from Newbury Park said Friday night he’ll continue to hold indoor services at Godspeak Calvary Chapel just hours after a Ventura County, California judge issued a temporary restraining order barring the church from holding in-church services. Apparently the First Amendment doesn’t exist in that courtroom.
The temporary restraining order issued by Judge Matthew P. Guasco bars Godspeak and Pastor McCoy from providing indoor services at the church in Newbury Park or any other indoor venue in the county from now until August 31.
Pastor Rob McCoy mentioned that the county supervisor called a vote to take county money to hire an attorney to seek the temporary restraining order. The vote was 3-2. It wasn’t even unanimous. They sued the church for violating public health orders in place amid the ongoing CV-19 pandemic.
McCoy said that the judge ruled that the county can cite as many as 1,000 “unnamed” congregants or visitors who attend church services there.
When all is said and done, we are all adults who make rational decisions every day. Freedom and liberty, under our Constitution, means you are born with the right to worship God how you see fit, and the government is the one that has restrictions on barring you from worship. If rational adults decide to attend church services, the government has no right to stop them, regardless of a pandemic. That’s the law. Do we live under a Constitutional republic or do we not?
After the judge’s ruling, Pastor McCoy said the church’s Board of Elders voted unanimously, with just one person absent, to not comply with the order.
The Pastor shared the board’s decision at 6:45 pm in a live stream broadcast on the church’s YouTube page.
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McCoy also said that YouTube must be monitoring their online channel, because if they stray away from the liberal dogma of CV-19 their feed gets cut.
“I wish it didn’t have to come to this, I really do, but we will be violating the judge’s order,” McCoy said. “We will be open this Sunday.”
The August 31 listening to is scheduled to find out whether or not to switch the non permanent order with a preliminary injunction, which might final for months, or just let the order finish.
Dr. Robert Levin, the general public well being officer for the county, gave a court docket declaration for the listening to Friday to justify the general public well being order, saying the danger of spreading the virus will increase considerably when individuals from totally different households collect indoors for prolonged durations of time.
The Structure simply does not consider choices for these politicians. Church buildings have a First Modification proper to worship nonetheless they please. Our Founding Fathers did not put in exceptions for pandemic viruses. Actually, I’d argue {that a} pandemic virus is the perfect time for church providers to be held.
No different entities had been, companies, church buildings, and many others. had been affected by this order. That makes it unlawful beneath the 14th Modification.
A significant drawback with states ordering lockdowns and shutdowns of companies and church buildings is that they don’t seem to be voting on something. Neither states nor counties are writing laws and voting on them for lockdowns, forcing the sporting of masks, and many others. They’re simply willy nilly making up guidelines and forcing individuals to conform. That is not how a republic works, and apparently Godspeak Calvary Chapel has had sufficient.
The actual fact of the matter is the county loss of life price from CV-19 Chinese language virus is 1/100 of 1%, and but the county politicians are focusing on this church, which hasn’t had a single CV-19 constructive case since doing in-church providers since Could.
The Pastor said that having services outdoors as allowed by the judge’s order is not acceptable. McCoy told me Saturday during a telephone interview that he does not know where he can find a place for 1,500 people to meet outdoors in Thousand Oaks. And aside from that, there’s the principle of the matter at stake here. We’re talking about a violation of the Fist Amendment’s right to worship without government interference.
“We want to worship God,” McCoy said.
The Pastor said that Sunday they are anticipating 10,000 people to show up to Godspeak for services. The church holds only 500, and there are normally three services on Sunday, which means a whole lot of people are going to be inside and out of the church all day long.
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Rich is a conservative syndicated opinion writer and owner of Maga-Chat.com. He writes about politics, culture, liberty, and faith.
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Sounds to me like they are rioting against the state order. It is ok to riot…
All churches in california should show up at your church on ssunday morning to stand beside you!!! Gid is on the move, let him move!!! Amen, stay strong!!!
May the blood of Christ continue to cover those who take a stand
Well spoken, Pastor Mcoy. there can be no turning back now. This matter is now in God’s hands as will be the fate of those who defy his will. Woe be unto them, pray for their hearts and minds to be receptive to the righteousness of this small act of defiance on you and your congregations part. This manipulated “epidemic” has been perpetrated on the citizenry of this nation for too long now and every simple act of defiance will be another stone tumbling and loosening others to form an avalanche that will crush those who would harm this nation and it’s peoples liberty, granted by The Creator.
So Glad to hear that someone is standing up for their rights!! The Church should no be included in the states so called mandate rules. It should be like the tribes that are not included in the government. I wish all Churches would stand up because they would not be alone. God Bless and thanks
You gotta clean up this article, total chaos in the last half of it…. what is a Modification??? who actually wrote this? I agree with the church btw !!
I was thinking the exact same thing.