![]() ![]() Many attendees are on limited income obtained from government assistance - whether disability or social security, Medicare or Medicaid. Many of the members do not have driver’s licenses and are dependent on the church family for rides to get food, supplies, and go to medical appointments and personal care services like haircuts. Lighthouse Fellowship helps keep people free of drug addiction, brokenness, mental illness, poverty, and prostitution. For a large percentage of the members, this church is their lifeline. Liberty Counsel says the church isn’t well off – it doesn’t have internet – and the members depend on it for the most basic of necessities. Using an arbitrary number of 10 people for every church is not the answer. ![]() We need to balance the First Amendment with protecting the health and welfare of people. ![]() There is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ template that works for every church. Ralph Northam, the pastor is being criminally charged. But because the church had six more people than the 10 allowed by Gov. Lighthouse Fellowship Church protected the health and safety of the 16 people by requiring them to be spread far apart in the 293-seat sanctuary. In a news release, Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said Wilson was doing the right thing for his parishioners and pleaded with the governor to be reasonable. Among those thinking that this was heavy-handed treatment was Liberty Counsel, which has taken up the case. ![]()
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