When it's a common sense and health issue. When they want to flip a coin, the coin they use is heads on both sides.

Same with all talking points. Pro-life? Really? 🤮

Then you're the fuck on your own.

After birth, children become moving targets for gun toting maniacs. And workers? Meh, they're plentiful & cheap. Repuke think. 🤬

Vacuous inside. It is mindboggling.

Placed a lot of idiots into our Congress and state legislatures as well. Vacuous indeed!

You know minimizing deaths is such a obviously hippie commie thing to do.

She's got backbone. I love that in an elected official. And she has urban and rural support. Gotta love her!

If they decide it's okay for churches to be fully open, they are complete hypocrites.

They are smart to meet via Zoom. They were nearly all appointed by current Democratic Governor, Laura Kelly, or by Kathleen Sebelius.
It is a committee of the legislature that is challenging the gov's right to govern--they are the villains.

but if they aren't willing to meet in person, then they sure as fuck shouldn't be willing to okay hundreds, maybe thousands of people gathering in close quarters.

Again, the definition of hypocrisy.

if they approve the GOP attempt to overturn Governor Kelly's orders--which were originally agreed upon by the legislative committee, btw. Something happened Wednesday that made them decide to use Easter to polarize the whole thing, when they'd been playing nicely with others for about two weeks.

But what I really don't get is this interest in calling them hypocrites in advance. A hypothetical insult of decent, smart people. If they do X, they will be hypocrites. Yes, but no indications that they will do X, so why does this have so much energy?

Keeping the faith. Smart people Zoom. Smart people know the laws. Standing by.

However, after the service is over, all of the participants need to be forcefully quarantined for two weeks.

Freedom is all about choices.

I think participants should be quarantined until after the pandemic has taken its leave. The people who crowd churches cannot be expected to be responsible after church services are completed on Easter Sunday. They must all be treated as Typhoid Marys until the pestilence has departed, or else they'll be getting together in close quarters to pray and barbecue, to shop maskless and gloveless, and in general to challenge the virus in the name of the Lord and, doing so, putting innocent folk at risk. So, yeah, make the bastards stay home.

As to the pastors and preachers who summoned the faithful: they should all be required to wait the pandemic at home, just like their congregants/parishioners, but should also be required, afterwards, to spend a couple of years working among the homeless and poverty-stricken, and living amongst them instead of in their actual homes (which, in some cases, are quite palatial) -- in the name of Christ Jesus, Amen.

I hate republicans? These people are the absolute WORST of us. The grifters and the haters. The slime and the scum of this republic. Irredeemable. Lets hope in November a fair number of them get scooped up and tossed in the trash where they belong.

https://www.cjonline.com/news/20200411/kansas-coronavirus-update-supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-fight-between-governor-gop-led-panel


TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court justices for the first time in the court’s history appeared by video conference Saturday morning to referee a battle royal between Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republicans who oppose her ban on large church gatherings.

Justices planned to make a swift decision on who has ultimate authority to manage an unprecedented health crisis — the governor, or a GOP-led panel of legislators.


The Legislature in March passed a resolution giving the governor extended emergency powers for dealing with COVID-19. The resolution, which passed by near-unanimous vote, also gives the Legislative Coordinating Council the ability to overturn an executive order.

The LCC, a panel of five Republicans and two Democrats, on Wednesday reversed the governor’s decision to limit church gatherings to no more than 10 individuals. A day later, the governor petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene.

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state grew Saturday by 102, to 1,268. Kansas also reported five more deaths, bringing the total to 55.

The state has identified four outbreaks stemming from religious gatherings.

btw - Rachel reported on the church gathering outbreaks in Kansas a couple of days ago.

The supreme court will back her up.
I just wish they'd come back from lunch or wherever they've been. Come on!

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Republicans seem fine with that.