Chicago's lesbian mayor, Lori Lightfoot, launched a police raid on Sunday on a predominately black church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus shutdown orders • /s/BiblicalSubmission

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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Rights are not absolute things like magical incantations. The courts have throughout the country repeatedly backed up that the states have the authority to inhibit or alter your rights in all kinds of conditions, such as arrest, and in the event of a pandemic. Successive supreme court rulings over the past 100 years repeatedly affirm the ability for states to declare quarantines, as well as close and regulate businesses, and these include places of worship so long as it is not explicitly a prohibition on only places of worship or specific ones.

In other words, no, your rights are not magically immutable just because you don't care about other people. This is because, unlike children, normal adults understand their actions can infringe on the rights of others. Such as their right to liberty and happiness. Can't be very happy if a bunch of tantrum throwing toddlers in adult bodies are spreading around a disease, now can you?

[–]Dragonerne 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

She is violating their rights. This church can always retaliate and take away her rights too. This is what 2A is for.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nope. Your rights are being modified. You can still assemble, just not in person nor viral transmission range. As Fedinetizen pointed out, this is what streaming and computers are for. If you lack a computer, there still exist party lines and broadcasting that can accomplish the same thing. Not being able to do what you want when you want is not an "infringement" on the constitution, you could never do that without subverting somebody else's rights.

[–]StBlops2cel_is_Lord 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

She has allowed other methods of assembly, including multiple and numerous "protests", large mass gatherings for George Floyd, Pantyfa rallies, and some LGBT parades just to name a few, you obese lunkhead