Texans marked their ballot to protect and defend a church’s constitutional right to keep the doors open while a conservative activist in Democrat-dominated Illinois is warning the public after freedom of conscience got dropped from a state law that exists literally to defend and protect it.
This week, Texas voters voted against any future attempt to limit worship services by supporting Proposition 3 on their ballot. The measure, which bans state and local government from restricting church services, passed 62%-38% on Tuesday.
Many churches shut their doors in an effort to protect the congregation from the virus, especially in the early months of 2020, but other congregations did so to abide by state and local lockdown mandates that forced them to do so. Farther into 2020, when it was becoming obvious two million Americans were not going to die as predicted, some congregations were refusing to close their doors and sued to demand the right to meet.
Regarding the passage of Proposition 3, Mary Elizabeth Castle of Texas Values says the conservative group supported the amendment and called it a “common-sense” measure.
“Churches never should have been closed during the pandemic, especially for the time period of which they were closed,” she tells American Family News, “and all Texans of all demographics, of all political parties, believe that churches are essential.”
In another fight over First Amendment-guaranteed religious liberty, David Smith of the Illinois Family Institute says state legislators stripped away the fundamental right to abide by your conscience.
According to The Chicago Tribune, in the name of public safety, the existing Health Care Right of Conscience Act was changed during the legislative session by dropping language allowing moral or religious exemptions to a mandatory vaccine.
“Ultimately, this means we can keep kids in school, businesses open, neighbors safe,” said Gov. J.B. Pritzker, “and continue on the path to bring this pandemic to an end.”
“First they take away the parental notice of abortion, usurping parental rights,” Smith points out, “and now they’re taking away conscience rights. This is tyranny. This is the growth of big government and it is just despicable.”
According to the Tribune, the vote wasn’t so overwhelming: In the House, seven Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the change and two other Democrats voted “present.” In the Senate, six Democrats voted against it and four didn’t case a vote.
The controversial measure passed 31-24 in the Senate and 64-52 in the House.
Looking toward the future, Smith says updated legislative districts are coming and voters need to study the new map, he says, in light of how lawmakers voted on the Conscience Act.
“Because these Democratic lawmakers have a super majority, and feel as though they’re untouchable,” he warns, “and that has to be corrected at the ballot box in 2022.”
Back in Texas, a total of eight ballot measures appeared on the ballot along with Proposition 3. The most popular proved to be Proposition 1 which allows charity raffles at rodeo events in the state. That measure passed Tuesday by a lopsided 84%-16%, and approximately 317,170 more Texans voted for that measure than supported Proposition 3.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Many fearful Americans just talk the talk, while brave Americans walk the walk, when they walk through the valley of death and fear no evil because God is with them. King David walked that walk and lived to a prosperous ripe old age. So have many god-fearing Americans, many who show bravery in military battle, but others who show civilian courage to face evil in other ways, like Making America great when surrounded by hordes of people or politicians of ill intent who never let a crisis opportunity go to waste. You don’t have to slay Goliaths these days to prove your courage, just stand up to needling politicians and demand your rights to worship and reflect the one you turn to in times of crisis who determines who you worship. Those who rely upon he who created them, who CREATED your health and your very life force, are doing, and have always done better, than those relying upon people like Biden and Pelosi who just want to diminish your strength and life force in order to just increase that of their own.
Wisdom dictates that there is a God. Wise men know it isn’t them. Experience has shown me that If what you receive freely does not come from him, is soon becomes costly when it comes from others who think and act like they are Him. God bless Texas.
All democrats want in reality is to eliminate Jesus Chris from the country. They can take everything we own, they can move in illegals to steal and spread disease, they can put us in jail, they can even kill us but they cannot take the love we have for Jesus Christ from our hearts. And that is the #1 goal they have for all Americans. Some will follow their paths to hell others will fight to the end and live eternally in heaven when we will never be subjected to evil in any way shape or form. Praise the Lord!!!
This traitorous, demonic, socialist Democrat Party
and their supporters are disciples of the devil.
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Can you see the correlation between this passage in the Holy Bible and
the characteristics and agendas of this U.S. Democrat Party?
You start with civil disobedience and defiance, Mr Smith, and you turn the heat up from there as needed. Cowering and blind submission to this kind of thing empowers Liberals and, yes, it will get worse if it isn’t stopped NOW !!!!! Biden and his administration have emboldened every Democrat power machine in this country and they are all testing the limits to see just how much they can get away with. YOU SHUT IT DOWN NOW !!!!!
More and more, i am just wanting to see a massive asteroid fly in, and just LEVEL Illinois.. NOTHING about that entire state is worth saving.