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...but this is just LAME and they should be charged..  :idiot2::

Easter churchgoers defiant after Kentucky troopers write down their license plate numbers

As hymns sang out Easter Sunday from a large outdoor speaker overlooking the Maryville Baptist Church parking lot, two Kentucky State troopers placed quarantine notices on parishioners' cars and wrote down their license numbers.

Inside the church, roughly 50 worshipers ignored Gov. Andy Beshear's order against mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic so they could attend services together on Christianity's holiest day.

Several said as they left that they had no intention of abiding by the notice on their windshields that called for a 14-day self-quarantine or face the threat of "further enforcement measures."

Beshear said Sunday that those who received notices will get a letter "asking them to self-quarantine."

"No one is being charged with anything," he said.

Asked if the state will consider GPS monitoring anklets such as Jefferson County has used for those exposed to COVID-19 who failed to self-isolate, Beshear said "it's not going to come to that."

"We don't need any of that," he said. "We just need people to do the right thing."

But he did take the opportunity to again discourage the church from meeting in person.

"Those that want to have mass gatherings send out a signal all around the country to those that don't think this virus is serious, that don't follow the rules and then want to come to a place to make their point," Beshear said.

Kentucky Health Commissioner Steven Stack was more blunt.

"At what point do our rights to gather entitle us to have other people die as a result?" he asked at Beshear's briefing.

Even so, it's clear that Maryville's pastor, the Rev. Jack Roberts, has no intention of ending in-person services, despite the deadly pandemic, putting his church among a handful of others across Kentucky that have rebuffed Beshear's wishes. 

Roberts arrived at the church Sunday morning to find several piles of nails dumped at the church entrances to the parking lot. He said he wouldn't tell his congregation to follow or defy the orders that Beshear announced Friday in his ongoing effort to hold down the spread of COVID-19.





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I think it is safe to do like a drive in movie style service.  Like you in  your own car, window up and tuning into a.m channel to hear the sermon in the church's parking lot. 

Then again, you can also tune it in at home but all depends on the strength of the airwave signals. 

Then again, they still violate that shelter in place ordinance.   Only for essential runs only. 

What is from Caesar, give it to Caesar says the bible.  Obey your local laws.   O0



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