re: Pastor Snell and Life Tabernacle feed 600+ needy children per week

"Aggravated assault" is an unconstitutional statute?

That's new.

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Apple is "moral" when it is financially a benefit to do so and never fail to self promote them doing it (or at least "moral" when it's not hard with no financial penalty for being so).

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Identical to this “church”. Which was my point. The difference being Apple calls itself an incorporated entity selling a product to customers, not a non profit religious organization preying on weak-minded individuals who think they are praising a higher power but are really funding some scam artists lifestyle.

I think this may be the wrong thread for this. I was interested in the constitutionality of the emergency orders as they apply to free exercise of religion issues. Not as they apply to trying to run over a guy with a bus.

Like I said, maybe for a different thread.

Not sure. Local governments shut down churches over the Spanish flu a century ago and didn’t get in trouble with the courts. Seems like there is precedent, although I can’t cite the case law off the cuff

"A community has the right to protect itself against an epidimic of disease which threatens the safety of its members."
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).


"The family itself is not beyond regulation in the public interest, as against a claim of religious liberty. And neither the rights of religion nor the rights of parenthood are beyond limitation…. The right to practice religion freely does not include the right to expose the community or the child to communicable disease or the latter to ill-health or death...."
Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944)

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Identical to this “church”. Which was my point. The difference being Apple calls itself an incorporated entity selling a product to customers, not a non profit religious organization preying on weak-minded individuals who think they are praising a higher power but are really funding some scam artists lifestyle.

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The you should have said that originally instead of

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Apple does far more than feed 600 needy children every week across the globe. They don’t claim to be a church.

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Or even just left it as

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Doing something moral doesn’t give you a carte Blanche to do immoral shite. You want to hide behind a moral shield of superiority? Be moral when it’s hard.

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Bringing in a company sitting on billions in cash made in part by taking advantage of cheap labor to say they feed more than this local church while not claiming to be be a church was irrelevant to point you are now making or made in 2nd paragraph of your original reply.

You have a little of that air of superiority towards those "weak-minded" church members and who they feel they are praising. Maybe follow your own advice and lay down your own shield of superiority when talking about the rank and file church members.

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They show up by the bus load at the schools to get the free food that is handed out. That's how they feed people

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Exactly. They cleared out Woodlawn Elementary last week.

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Did EBR make it clear that a child was required to be present like one school appeared to require? I just keep reading each child will receive a kit not necessarily that child has to be present to receive.

I am more wondering about EBRSD's communications not whether someone should show up in an empty bus. I was thinking bus had the kids until I read some of the reddit comments.

Not to same extent as bringing in an empty school bus, but I wonder how many others took advantage of possible confusion. Another school seemed to have someone not letting people take advantage of situation. At same time if EBR didn't give a clear procedure some honest people might have not gotten enough at school below.

Quote about different school

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The volunteers were only putting in the car the number of boxes matching the number of kids in the car. We were walking by, stopped to watch, and heard several drivers arguing with the guys about "I got kids at home" and the guy in charge said "Sorry, they've got to be with you or I need proof. This food is for the students." He was firm and taking charge. Too bad Woodlawn didn't have a dude like this.

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Lol @ OP having to adjust his numbers to support his charlatan

Hence my comment "At same time if EBR didn't give a clear procedure some honest people might have not gotten enough at school below."

It wasn't just about people taking more than they should. The example of the different school in Reddit link even with good intentions (maybe even hearing about the bus) may have been stopping some honest people from getting food to other kids at home not knowing what to bring to prove this. I only read a couple of links, but it's didn't seem entirely clear on how to show you had more kids at home. Hopefully school board/leadership learns from both and has communicated clear & effective instructions for parents and volunteers to fix both scenarios in future, get kids fed, and avoid any tempers flaring up between people truly trying to feed their kids and people truly trying to help and also make sure it goes to kids.