Friday, May 01, 2020
LA: Pastor returns to church to preach despite being on house arrest
“The pastor of a Central church who has defied state orders to limit the number of congregants at his worship services violated another order Sunday — preaching from the pulpit despite a judge’s directive that he stay at home under house arrest.
Wearing an ankle monitor attached after he was accused of threatening to run over a protester outside his Life Tabernacle Church last Sunday, the Rev. Tony Spell told his congregation it’s a ‘dirty rotten shame when you’re hiding in America.’
Its members sang and waved signs reading ‘I stand with Pastor Spell.’ … The pastor has said the state’s stay-at-home and social distancing orders, both aimed at limiting the novel coronavirus, violate his and his congregants’ First Amendment rights to assemble and practice their faith.”
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Putting aside the argument of whether the church should or should not meet, this "pastor" agreed to the conditions of his release, which according to the article:
One condition of Spell's release is that he "refrain from any and all criminal conduct, including but not limited to strictly abiding by the all emergency orders issued by the Governor of the State of Louisiana."
It is one thing to say "I am not going to follow the order" and deal with the consequences. It is another to say "as a supposed 'man of God,' I am going to lie to a judge while under oath."
That is what charlatans do - they lie to fit their own warped morality.
For an alleged pastor to lie in violation of Biblical principles shows what type of person he is.
This is not a First Amendment issue. This is a case of a clown saying one thing and doing another all in the "name of God."
He is no different than any other cult leader.
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