ONTARIO, CANADA – Think that maybe the United States Constitution's First Amendment isn't so important? Think that what happens in Socialist Canada would never happen in Socialist Illinois? Ask these Canadian citizens of Ontario …
Six elders of a church in Ontario, Canada, have been asked to appear in a criminal court for holding in-person services in violation of COVID-19-related restrictions. The elders, who face a fine of up to $10,000, say the action is “a violation of God-given rights.”
The members of Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo were charged last week under Section 10.1 of the Reopening Ontario Act for exceeding the number of permitted people in attendance — 10 people indoors and 10 people outdoors — during a worship service on Dec. 27, according to CBC News.
Officers from the Waterloo Region Police Service visited the homes of the elders at night and gave them each a summons to court.
The church says no outbreak has been traced back to its services since they reopened in June. But they “have heard a plethora of stories from many of our congregants about how they were negatively affected spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and financially during the first lockdown,” the elders said in a statement.
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