Attorney General William Barr weighs in on discriminatory treatment of churches.

The Attorney General of the United States is taking action this week due to the discriminatory treatment of churches during the coronavirus crisis across America.

If you live in Bullitt County, Kentucky, this weekend you could go to Walmart, the liquor store, Home Depot or even fabric stores with no problem. Those stores are open for business and you can peruse their wares, stand in line with other shoppers, stand across from the cashier and punch the same credit and debit pin machine as all of the hundreds of shoppers before you, all with no police interference.

BUT, if you decided to park your car in the lot of Maryville Baptist Church, in that same county, your car would get posted with a quarantine notice ordering the owner and occupants to a mandatory 15-day self-quarantine – essentially placing you under house arrest.

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Never mind that the church had fully sanitized every nook, cranny and pew.  Never mind that the church had set up higher "social distancing" standards than any store, and never mind that the church installed hand sanitizer on every single pew. And never mind the church had a small group in a large sanctuary with far more social distancing than recommended.

Walmart doesn’t put hand sanitizer on any aisle. In fact, much of the time the sanitizer pump at store entrances is empty, if they are installed at all.

Maryville Baptist Church went far and above every single standard employed by the stores that Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear deemed to be "essential," yet both the governor and police are aggressively targeting church attenders.

Churches, not stores, have a constitutional right to exist, operate and hold services. The government has no authority to micromanage a church service. Health guidelines are fine but requiring quarantine just because you went to a church is an outrageous overreach of authority.

Sadly, Maryville Baptist is not the only church under attack by power- grabbing governors and local officials. San Diego has banned churches from holding parking lot services, even though the same people could park in the Home Depot lot and listen to the pastor on the radio.

And we recently told you about Lighthouse Fellowship of Chincoteague Island, Virginia, whose ministry helps people addicted to drugs and caught- up in prostitution. The pastor now faces a criminal charge for having 16 people in a 293-seat sanctuary – six people over the 10-person limit imposed by Governor Ralph Northam.

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The Attorney General has now filed a suit in the parking lot church case in Mississippi. Concerned by the widespread discriminatory treatment of churches, Attorney General Barr issued constitutional guidelines today.

Remind Attorney General Barr and the Governors that THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT DISAPPEAR IN A CRISIS! Stop the discriminatory treatment of churches.

This is no longer a matter of "creeping encroachment" on our liberties.  The discriminatory treatment, arrests of pastors and unwarranted quarantine of parishioners must stop NOW.

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In Christ,

Mat Staver
Chairman

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