CNN Host Victor Blackwell on Sunday grilled a Louisiana pastor over his decision to host massive in-person church services during the coronavirus pandemic, despite guidance from public health officials and a stay-at-home order from the governor.
Tony Spell — the pastor of the evangelical Life Tabernacle Church in Central, outside of Baton Rouge, which is one of the cities hardest hit by the virus — was charged last week with refusing to abide by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ order that temporarily limits gatherings to 10 people.
Roughly 1,800 people attended last week’s services, Spell said during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “New Day Weekend.” Following his interview, hundreds of worshippers gathered at the church once again, Reuters reported.
“We believe the science of this,” Spell told Blackwell. “However, we do have a command from God and there are no governing bodies that can tell us we cannot gather and worship freely.”
Blackwell asked Spell whether he believes the science that shows people who gather in large groups are at greater risk of contracting the virus.
“Yes, we believe the science,” Spell said, noting that many people who contract the virus “don’t even know they have it” and often recover from it. “People have been locked up in their homes for 22 days now. ... And the hope is the last stronghold in those people’s lives.”
Blackwell continued to press him.
“If you believe the science ― and I assume you are pro-life, is that correct?” Blackwell asked Spell, using the term adopted by many people who oppose reproductive rights. Spell confirmed that he is.
“How is this a pro-life stance to put people in jeopardy of contracting a disease, getting a virus that has no treatment, no cure, often has no symptoms and has killed more than [8,500 people in the U.S.] in five weeks?” Blackwell continued.
Spell responded that “people’s hope is in the House of God.”
“If they do contract the virus, if they have fears of the virus, the church is more essential now than ever,” Spell said. “There is a physician in Jesus Christ.”
“We were supposed to be at a million-and-a-half body bags,” he added. “We’re at 8,400. So the narrative is false.”
As of Sunday afternoon, there were more than 331,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, across the country. More than 9,400 people have died. Louisiana has become one of the hot spots in recent weeks, with more than 13,000 confirmed cases and at least 477 deaths.
Late last month, President Donald Trump proposed easing social distancing measures and encouraging economic activity by Easter, which is April 12. But public health experts on the White House’s coronavirus task force convinced him to extend the restrictions, warning that millions of people could die if he didn’t.
Poster Comment:
Group of 50 black kids playing baskeyball in da skreet. I'm sure it's the same everywhere, but CNN seems compelled to dump on Christians.
#1: sonny To: Dakmar (#0)
and preventing all types of worship proves it beyond any doubt. The Virus is nothing but a tool for what is to come
sonny posted on 2020-04-05 23:25:27 Reply Private Reply
#2: StraitGate To: Dakmar (#0)
Most pro-life people do not oppose the right to reproduce. They oppose the "right" to kill the unborn offspring of reproduction.
StraitGate posted on 2020-04-05 23:45:56 Reply Private Reply
#3: NeoconsNailed To: Dakmar (#0)
Ada's hot link trumps all.
CDC Tells Hospitals To List COVID as Cause of Death Even if You're Just Assuming or It Only Contributed
www.scoopyweb.com/2020/04/cdc-tells-hospitals-to-list- covid- as.html
I trust we can trust an article like this in an obscure site called scoopyweb? I guess it's just a fun facts site but the article has the ring of truth about it despite naming no news sources. It certainly sounds like how the fedgov acts.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-06 00:02:48 Reply Private Reply
#4: Liberator To: Dakmar, All (#0)
+100
CNN truly is "Fake News."
Can you or anybody here remember the last time CNN (or MSNBC) reported a story without any advancing a Leftist/Upside-Down agenda or built-in anti-Christian/conservative/Trump bias?
I can't.
Liberator posted on 2020-04-06 12:19:09 Reply Private Reply
#5: Liberator To: sonny (#1)
You know it. EXACTAMUNDO.
and preventing all types of worship proves it beyond any doubt. The Virus is nothing but a tool for what is to come
Last Days/End Days as prophesied. Our world is inverted, upside down. Came rather suddenly, didn't it?
Btw, are you into Bible prophecy?
Liberator posted on 2020-04-06 12:22:35 Reply Private Reply
#6: Liberator To: StraitGate (#2)
Well stated. Truth BUMP.
Liberator posted on 2020-04-06 12:23:22 Reply Private Reply
#7: Liberator To: NeoconsNailed, Ada, ALL (#3)
Isn't THAT interesting. Ruh-Roe...
But...but....that's a "conspiracy"! We need to listen to Fauci, CNN, our Dear Leaders and...and...Bill Gates! His "vaccines" are gonna save us!!
Liberator posted on 2020-04-06 12:28:03 Reply Private Reply
#8: Liberator To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
Any source that blends partial truth with partial lies is THE definitive effective propaganda.
Liberator posted on 2020-04-06 12:30:53 Reply Private Reply
#9: NeoconsNailed To: Liberator, Ada (#8)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-06 13:22:12 Reply Private Reply
#10: NeoconsNailed To: Liberator (#7)
www.youtube.com/channel/U...h3Rdsyok_ZdGNYwb7Q/videos
Tried one called The Roman Catholic Conspiracy To Paganize Jesus, couldn't get past all the fundy preachifying.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-06 13:29:02 Reply Private Reply
#11: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
From the CDC itself:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code- introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf
[courtesy of stateofthenation: http://stateofthenation.co/?p=10859 ]
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-04-06 22:07:23 Reply Private Reply
#12: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt To: NeoconsNailed (#3)
Posted on April 5, 2020 by State of the Nation
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=10783
[I can't watch this, but I have been hearing this accusation for at least a week or two]
AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt posted on 2020-04-06 22:20:09 Reply Private Reply
#13: NeoconsNailed To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, Ada, HAPPY2BME-4UM (#11)
https://dailystormer.su/cdc-has-already-instructed-hospitals-to-hoax- coronavirus-death-numbers/
The virus hoax and scam died this morning at approximately 12 AM. Services will be held at the Church of Satan, 6114 California St., the Rev. Whoopi Goldberg presiding.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-06 23:21:53 Reply Private Reply
#14: NeoconsNailed To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#12)
The next question is how reliable is his source, globalresearch.ca? I think it's entirely so and have never heard them accused of fraud, but spose its sources need to be fully checked out in each article.
www.globalresearch.ca/
That's certainly an impressive right margin full of links at SOTN.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-06 23:42:14 Reply Private Reply
#15: Ada To: NeoconsNailed (#14)
Ada posted on 2020-04-07 09:03:36 Reply Private Reply
#16: NeoconsNailed To: Ada (#15)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-07 09:04:55 Reply Private Reply