Can’t yell fire in a crowded theater, can’t pack a room during a pandemic. Common sense, anon.
Was the guy screaming fire in a crowded theater screaming by choice? That’s not a logical argument. We are in a public health emergency. In order to stop a virus that is spreading person to person—which it is in the national interest to do—people can’t pack rooms. This is a temporary measure. It is NOT applicable only to churches.
Closing a church during a pandemic does not impede your ability to believe anything, not does it prevent you from doing a zoom worship. Your argument about peaceable assembly is better, but again, there are limits to constitutional freedoms. You know that. Yelling fire in a crowded theater is a danger to the health and safety of theater goers. Large gatherings in a room during a pandemic is a danger to a whole community. Think, anon. Think.
If the ban continues indefinitely, I’ll be right next to you marching in the streets.
My argument assumes the pandemic is real, as I believe it to be. You may think differently.
This is not a constitutional crisis. The law is settled. The state has an interest in the safety of its people, so you will have to temporarily congregate virtually with your church folk until it is safe for the community for you to meet in person.
Neither you nor I know the truth. Believe what you want.
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As previously noted, the courts have already ruled that rights are not absolute. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. But now that you mention it, I’m sure someone will challenge the church ban and the case will move through the courts.
You do you, anon.
That may be so. We’ll have to see what happens.