Ms. Anonymous writes,
Everyone is going crazy with the mask tyranny, including churches.
Boy, don’t get me going. The mandates from Parson Goat to muzzle ourselves are soooo anti-Scriptural. First, aren’t Christians called to promulgate truth? Why are churches, then, cooperating with and promoting the gigantic lie that is COVID19? Second, matters that aren’t specifically addressed in the Bible are left to the individual’s conscience. Why are churches enforcing the State’s unconstitutional and illegal orders? Why are they siding with those congregants who cower behind their masks rather than boldly trusting the Lord to preserve their health against the rest of us?
Forgive me for interrupting Ms. A, who’s
…been pushing back in various ways, but when a new blanket mask order from our Parish Council came down last week, I’d had enough. I’m trying to live in peace, but circumstances make it difficult. … I looked up the actual Public Health Order, which, it ends up, contradicts the council’s new rules. None of them had consulted the actual order. I wrote this email to our Parish Council, pastor, and bishop last week, and so far have stopped them in their tracks. They just don’t know any better. Please re-publish it, if you think your church-going readers could use the same idea. They should consult the actual order from their county, and perhaps get a little breathing room for awhile. The churches may be going above and beyond what is “required.”
Dear Parish Council, et alia:
I am writing to alert you that you are not in compliance with the Boulder County Public Health Order 2020-04 (signed June 29, 2020), which is more lenient than what you are voting to impose on our congregation as a blanket mask mandate during First Amendment-protected religious services.
Additionally, the Boulder Co. Order is a set of guidelines, not statutory law, because it was not voted on, nor passed by the Colorado Legislature, nor any other legislative body.
Where did your mask order come from, if not the county nor a legislature?
Please see the text of the Boulder Co. Health Order, which requires “facial coverings in public where social distancing cannot be maintained” (page 1); provides exemptions for “any person whose health would be inhibited by wearing a Face Covering” (page 4); and “does not require any child aged twelve (12) years or younger to wear a Face Covering. … In addition, this Order advises that children under age three years should not wear a Face Covering due to the risk of suffocation” (page 5).
See here:
I pray those of you suffering under Parson Goat’s skewed theology may enjoy Ms. A’s success, should you adapt her letter to your church’s circumstances.
10:40 am on July 9, 2020
