Post A68vjHX1xAn2fVf3Ym by NatashaRomanoff@democracy.town
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(DIR) Post #A68udH4YeEwPYJumqu by TonyStark@democracy.town
2021-04-11T13:58:42Z
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Imagine an event where people gather in a building -- 50, 100, 300, 500. They sit in rows. They have programs. Up front, a choir sings, people speak, the organist plays, perhaps other instrumentalists join in. Afterwards, there's a coffee hour in the hall.Church service? No, a choral concert.The two events are, for all practical purposes, identical, yet one is prohibited and the other allowed.Our First Amendment rights -- mostly, the right of assembly -- are temporarily suspended or reduced for public health reasons during a pandemic where cases are high. This makes sense.Closing churches is not a violation of religious freedom; churches are not being closed to prevent worship, they are closed to prevent assembly.This would bother me less if it just affected them, but where are the rights of first responders and medical professionals to live free from their stupidity?Supreme Court strikes another pandemic-related restriction on religious services-https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-california-coronavirus-church/2021/04/10/182faec2-99e8-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html
(DIR) Post #A68udHTj8f4eoNgt5E by anon00110@kiwifarms.cc
2021-04-11T16:49:19.049926Z
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@TonyStark >This makes sense.No, it doesn't. The Constitution literally states the government has no power to abridge. Why? Because the excuse for abridging fundamental freedoms can always change. Considering the federal government has used the elastic clause time and time again to curb states rights, the people have the right to ignore the courts on this.You don't have a proper understanding of our fundamental freedoms. They aren't rights, rights are granted by the government, they are inherent liberties for which the government has no authority over.
(DIR) Post #A68v0jpzrkpTQVICf2 by Natanahel@kiwifarms.cc
2021-04-11T16:53:34.539512Z
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@TonyStark >Closing churches is not a violation of religious freedomdo you even read what you write? capeshit has rotten your brain
(DIR) Post #A68vPYaGqNhFlOlsJc by servant_of_the_anime_avatars@kiwifarms.cc
2021-04-11T16:58:03.377669Z
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@Natanahel @TonyStark Please be patient with our mentally retarded friends at democracy.town .Keep in ming that you are talking to someone who genuinely supports the democratic party, not even cynically like the commies, or socdems.They also defederated from us, I think, so don't waste your breath.
(DIR) Post #A68vjH3biZFpCFtYhM by MariaHill@democracy.town
2021-04-11T14:31:12Z
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@TonyStark Some communities are living in bubbles. A tween I know went to a sleepaway camp in Maine last summer. Maine didn't prohibit it since the case rates were so low. Unlike typical summers, staff couldn't leave and there was no mid-summer family visitation day. This summer, camps other states will operate in the same way. My friends' kids are going to secular sleepaway camps, or at most nominally religious ones with a weekly religious service like they would go to at home. I'd suggest that anyone who desperately has to attend church in person do the same, but that seems like it could promote cult formation.
(DIR) Post #A68vjHX1xAn2fVf3Ym by NatashaRomanoff@democracy.town
2021-04-11T16:26:04Z
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@MariaHill @TonyStark Several of the ones around here are just a step away from cult status, and some are already there.
(DIR) Post #A68vjHuQYBVNq4bk1o by MasculineMarsupial@kiwifarms.cc
2021-04-11T16:58:41.311843Z
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@NatashaRomanoff @MariaHill @TonyStark Unrelated question, why is everyone on your instance apparently named after a comic book character?
(DIR) Post #A68vjIGlD9MyxL3Zq4 by Natanahel@kiwifarms.cc
2021-04-11T17:01:36.040539Z
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@MasculineMarsupial @NatashaRomanoff @MariaHill @TonyStark oh shit it's true, maybe its one guy roleplaying with different accounts