COVID-19: Florida pastor arrested for violating bans on large gatherings, says closures are for ‘pansies’

Tampa-area law enforcement officials issued an arrest warrant Monday and charged a local pastor who has defied coronavirus-related bans on large gatherings, instead encouraging crowds as big as 500 people at one service this weekend, a sheriff said.

“There is nothing more important than faith during a time like this. And as a sheriff’s office we’d never impede someone’s ability to lean on their religious beliefs as a means of comfort, but practicing those beliefs has to be done safely,” Chronister said in a video of his Monday news conference posted on Fox.

A message left with the church wasn’t immediately answered Monday, but the River’s website displayed a church statement dated March 18 that said it wouldn’t be closing: Rev. Rodney Howard-Browne “The Hillsborough County administrative order has so many exceptions it looks like swiss cheese,” the Orlando-based firm said in the statement, adding that religious groups should get exemptions the way some other businesses have.

So arrest pastors while releasing inmates. What times we live in.

Lock him up!

Hm, He is..blind (Pastor)(Luke 6:39): Rapture has just come in the form of ...a 'Red Dragon(from Wuhan)'(Ap12:3)-Easter Bunny gift (from Devil).Do not insult the Most Rev.BusinessMan of Universe: (bats) from his FoodMarkets are always ready for Action

Lock him up

He should be thrown in jail.

I am surprised at the amount of people that “just don’t get it”. In many cases it’s a matter of life and death for some people.

God will punish his stupidity.

Yes, lock him up! Nuts!

You can't do no more than shake your head

They should put him in isolation behind bars!

Hope his celll Mates treat him like a pin cushion.

For preachers or televangelists, going to work for 1-2 hours a week and then passing the money basket to 'keep the lights on and the jet fueled is the most prophetable scam that has ever existed.

As someone else has posted: person 1: I believe Donald Trump was sent by God. person 2: Why? Did he run out of locusts?

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