Christians arrested for maskless outdoor church service to get payout from liberal college town

[Zephyr]

Christians arrested for maskless outdoor church service to get payout from liberal college town

A Democrat-run college town in Idaho is paying out a $300,000 settlement to three churchgoers arrested during a 2020 outdoor "psalm sing" that garnered national attention.

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A liberal college town in Idaho is paying $300,000 to three Christian churchgoers who sued the city after being arrested for not wearing masks at an outside service during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The city of Moscow announced this week that it would settle with Gabriel Rench, as well as Sean and Rachel Bohnet, who brought a case against city leaders in March 2021 that alleged their rights under the First and Fourth Amendments were violated when they were arrested at an outdoor "psalm sing" conducted by leaders from their church in September 2020.

Rench described the situation in Moscow as a "microcosm" of issues happening nationwide and elsewhere.

"I think it's no secret that portions of our government and political groups are now starting to target Christians in a way that has never really happened in America or Canada," he said, noting how he knows some of the pastors who have been jailed in neighboring Canada in recent years for holding church services.

"I'm in a conservative state, but I live in a liberal town, and the liberals had no problem arresting me for practicing my religious rights and my Constitutional rights," he said. "But my [Republican] governor also didn't defend me either. If you look at what's going on in Canada, I think America's 10 years, at most 20 years, behind Canada if we don't make significant changes."

Rench said one of the things he learned through his ordeal is that "hardened" political leaders cannot be expected to change their thought processes or political views.

 

[Tall Timbers]

If you look at what's going on in Canada, I think America's 10 years, at most 20 years, behind Canada if we don't make significant changes.

More like 3 or 4 years unless we can get an executive branch that respects Constitutional law.

 

[Zephyr]

More like 3 or 4 years unless we can get an executive branch that respects Constitutional law.

Don't count on the govmint to do any good. They're already gearing up to take what they want in '24. I just thought of something, it's Matthew chapter 24 that quotes Jesus answering the disciples questions about the End Times. I wonder...