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    Pastor John MacArthur Responds To California's Threats Of Imprisonment: 'Bring It On'
    By Tim Pearce
    Sep 16, 2020 DailyWire.com
    Pastor John MacArthur Responds To California's Threats Of Imprisonment: 'Bring It On' | The Daily Wire

    Grace Community Church Pastor John MacArthur fired back a response
    to California officials threatening him with jail time for holding in-person services in his church: "Bring it on."

    MacArthur appeared on Fox News on Tuesday night with host Laura Ingraham to discuss his ongoing battle with Los Angeles County officials. The pastor has rebelled against coronavirus-related health directives and wrangled in court with the county since July.

    "We received a letter with a threat that we could be fined or I could go to jail for a maximum of six months," MacArthur told Ingraham. "Of course, my biblical hero apart from the Lord Jesus Christ is the apostle Paul, and when he went into a town, he didn't ask what the hotel was like, he asked what the jail was like because he knew that's where he was gonna spend his time. So I don't mind being a little apostolic if they want to tuck me in a jail."

    "I'm open for a jail ministry. I've done a lot of other ministries and haven't had the opportunity to do that one, so bring it on," he added....


    I wonder how many others would get up and say that?

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    'It's Tyranny': Pastor MacArthur Will Get His Day in Court, Fighting CA Shutdown of Churches
    09-25-2020
    CBN News
    'It's Tyranny': Pastor MacArthur Will Get His Day in Court, Fighting CA Shutdown of Churches | CBN News

    In the latest round of the ongoing legal battle between Sun Valley, California's Grace Community Church, Pastor John MacArthur, and Los Angeles County officials, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge agreed that the church and MacArthur are entitled to a full trial on the merits of their challenge to the constitutionality of the government shutdown orders and the preliminary injunction.

    A Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction earlier this month after MacArthur's refusal to follow California's lockdown mandate for churches.

    Los Angeles County has sought to shut down the church and hold MacArthur in contempt, but Thomas More Society attorneys argued that a final determination on the constitutionality of the orders must occur before the county could seek contempt against MacArthur for merely holding church services.

    Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff agreed there are serious constitutional concerns that have not been fully tried. Because a contempt hearing is a quasi-criminal proceeding, the judge agreed that the church and MacArthur are entitled to constitutional protections at any such trial.

    Because of California's shutdown orders, the contempt trial is not expected to take place until early next year. A hearing is scheduled before Beckloff on Nov. 13 to consider the scope of the challenge to the validity of the state's preliminary injunction.

    "This is significant because no person can or should be held in contempt of a constitutionally invalid order. Los Angeles County continues to presume that its order is valid, with utter disregard for First Amendment protections. It's tyranny to even suggest that a government action cannot be challenged and must be obeyed without question," explained Thomas More Society Special Counsel Jenna Ellis. "This case goes to the heart of what our founders designed for the purpose of legitimate government—not to be above the rule of law. Pastor MacArthur is simply holding church, which is clearly his constitutionally protected right in this country."

    Thomas More Society Special Counsel Charles LiMandri said this is a clear case of the county continuing to try to punish MacArthur and the church for exercising their First Amendment rights.

    "This ruling prevents Los Angeles County's attempted rush to judgment in its continued prosecution of Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church for courageously exercising their First Amendment rights," LiMandri noted. "We are pleased that Judge Beckloff indicated he agreed with the major points that we made on behalf of Pastor MacArthur and Grace Community Church and we are very gratified that the judge's ruling today reflects that he appreciates the importance of the constitutionally protected rights at issue in this case."....










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    Said last evening apparently:

    "As you all know, we have continued to meet now—I don't know the exact number of weeks—and the city of Los Angeles and the county and the health department and all these people have tried to get a temporary restraining order to shut us down. And they can't get it because, basically, we filed a lawsuit against the city and the county on the First Amendment, that we have freedom of religion, and that amendment trumps every other ordinance. And the way to understand the First Amendment is this: the First Amendment says that we have a God-given right to worship, and the Constitution exists to protect that. It's not that the Constitution gave us that right; it exists to protect that God-given right. That's the way the founding fathers laid it out. So they would like to get a contempt of court against us. They would like to take away our parking lot. They have tried a whole lot of things, but they get stuck every time in front of this massive wall called the First Amendment. And the judge keeps saying until that issue of the First Amendment is litigated, we can't get on to anything else. So they've tried to go around it, and under it, and over it, but it doesn't work. So, the judge set a hearing date for November 13th. That's the next time there will be a hearing. That's not a trial. That's to set up a trial, which supposedly is gonna happen some time in 2021. By the time we get to that point, I think the expiration date on the pandemic will have run out." —John MacArthur

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    A good philosophy

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