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TexasTowelie

(118,543 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2020, 12:19 PM Apr 2020

A Pa. pastor plans 'Woodstock-like' Easter worship service defying coronavirus precautions: reports [View all]

A Pittsburgh-area pastor says he will hold an outdoor 'like Woodstock’ Easter service to protest coronavirus social-distancing guidelines.

Evangelist Jonathan Shuttlesworth of Revival Today ministry has protested the arrest of Rodney Howard-Browne in Florida for holding worship services and violating county orders to limit gatherings and stay at home because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In a video posted on March 30, Shuttlesworth said, “If they are arresting preachers now for having church then I am going to start dressing like an outlaw so I look good for my mugshot.”

Shuttlesworth referred to Howard-Browne as, “my best friend, possibly my only friend in the whole world.”

Read more: https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/a-pa-pastor-plans-woodstock-like-easter-worship-service-defying-coronavirus-precautions-reports.html

Welcome them all to worship and lock them into quarantine for the remainder of April.

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