By Nancy Flory, The Stream, August 10, 2020
Nancy is an Associate Editor at The Stream. She is currently PhD—ABD in the Strategic Communication and Journalism program at Regent University. She’s a wife and mother of four boys.
“A lot of people who are talking about this in the media ask the question, ‘What right does Grace Community Church have to open in the midst of this mandate?’” Thomas More attorney Jenna Ellis told The Stream. “Well, that’s not the appropriate question. The question, of course, is what power does the city and state and county have to force churches to close? And the bottom line is they don’t.”
Even so, lack of power didn’t stop Los Angeles county from issuing a “cease and desist” order to Grace Community Church and its pastor, John MacArthur, for holding church services. The July 29 order threatened the church and Pastor MacArthur personally with a $1,000 fine per day and up to 90 days in jail. Ellis’s team at Thomas More is representing Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church.
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