PA Pastor Slams Coronavirus Precautions, Planning 'Woodstock'-Like Easter Gathering

[left-of-center2012]

A Pittsburgh area pastor says he plans to organize an outdoor “Woodstock”-like Easter service to protest the stay-at-home orders to prevent coronavirus. Conservative Christian pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth made the announcement on social media Tuesday.

“I’m gonna announce it. We’re gonna hold an outdoor Easter blowout service. Not online. A national gathering. You come from all over, like Woodstock. And we’re gonna gather and lift up Jesus Christ,” Shuttlesworth says.

His announcement comes following the arrests of several pastors in the U.S. for violating the stay-at-home orders. Shuttlesworth is a televangelist who co-founded Revival Today TV, and is based in Washington County.

Earlier this month he called out European churches that are taking measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus:

“Shame on every European full gospel church, bunch of sissies, that shut down during this thing,” Shuttlesworth said. “If you’re putting out pamphlets and telling everybody to use Purell before they come into the sanctuary and don’t greet anyone, you should just turn in your ministry credentials and burn your church down — turn it into a casino or something,” he said on social media. “You’re a loser. Bunch of pansies. No balls. Got neutered somewhere along the line and don’t even realize it.”

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/04/01/pittsburgh-pastor-to-hold-woodstock-like-easter-gathering-despite-coronavirus-pandemic/

[Sherman A1]

1. This should prove to be entertaining

depending upon the response from the Governor and authorities.

[BComplex]

2. A veritable rush limbaugh.

Let 'em come. The rest of us will stay away from them.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. go for it dude, and once the sheep gather for their fleecing....

cops come in and surround them all, no one leaves for two weeks. Just think of all that time away from the worldliness of the Satanic pop culture and great christian fellowship!

If someone gets ill, well.........thoughts and prayers.

[lapfog_1]

4. One of two things will result

1. No one shows up for this idiot charlatan

or

2. Thousands of Trump voters show up and everyone gets infected, hundreds of more deaths.

Not sure how I feel about either possibilty

[3Hotdogs]

8. I'd bet a Nathan's hotdog on #2.

[lapfog_1]

11. some people, even the fundie Trumpanzees... are finally figuring it out

This is not a "Sandy Hook conspiracy" promoted by Alex Jones.

People they KNOW personally are getting sick... and some are dying.

[Tweedy]

14. Hope it is #1, or

Another possibility, this huckster is forced home without internet access.

The problem with option #2 is twofold.

First, if this suicide rally goes forward, these people will return home and infect, injure and sometimes kill others.

Second, the people who would attend have been duped by confidence tricksters and many of them come from vulnerable populations.

Blaming the victim of such a scam is not done by our laws. A sentence of death, grave lung injury or family and friend spread is beyond harsh.

Blaming false information spread on conservative news sites, by our fabulist president and his cronies, like this huckster, is much more just.

A virus does not care about justice, but law enforcement does. Locking this man in his home with an ankle bracelet and taking away his internet access would be a just response.

Second, healthcare workers and first responders would have to deal with the infectious fall out from this idiocy. That is simply unacceptable.

[FreeState]

30. Or a third option

The local authorities do their job and enforce the order and save lives.

[Tweedy]

5. What is wrong with these idiots?

Do they even have a clue what happens when a person is intubated?

Are they so desperate to be a bit richer and more famous that they are willing to kill their own parishioners?

This insanity is not loving your neighbor. It is more like attempted murder.

[marble falls]

6. Old joke: what lies between Pittsbugh and Phillie? Alabama. He IS east of Pburgh, right?

[left-of-center2012]

12. "He IS east of Pburgh, right?"

The OP references Washington County, PA.

[marble falls]

16. Fuckall. I still love Pburgh.

[BBG]

19. Pittsburgh ain't Washington County

Washington County backs up to West Virginia. Plenty of Trumpistan bullshit down that direction.

[left-of-center2012]

20. "I still love Pburgh"

‘Pgh’ is the official abbreviation for Pittsburgh.

I graduated high school in '64 in New Kensington, 22 miles up the Allegheny River
and later worked at Kaufmann's Dept Store downtown Pittsburgh.

[marble falls]

22. Back when the real Browns and the Steelers were serious rivals we wuz Pburgh and Cleveburgh.

I'd live in Pittsburgh. Great neighborhoods, great neighborhood cafes and taverns, great museums.

Great sledding hills!

[left-of-center2012]

26. i never heard that

We moved there in '60 when I started high school,
and I moved away on '74.

Never heard 'Pburgh and Cleveburgh'.

[marble falls]

28. Cause you never lived in Cleveburgh.

[dem4decades]

7. Instead of Jonestown they can call it Jonathantown.

[Brainfodder]

9. If Burghers don't beat this supreme jagoff up and good, yunz guyz, I will be very SusanCollins!

Just figuratively speaking ofc

I left the area when this jackass was probably 10, never heard that last name before, was there too long?

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. they are all squeezed out of the same playdough fun factory.

greasy, smarmy, slick, gross

[lagomorph777]

13. Good idea. Lock them in permanently.

And confiscate their toilet paper.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. And Jesus said, Lo! Behold unto thee my giant BALLS.

You bunch of sissies." and then he spat a wad of chew into the dust, and cracked open another beer.

[CurtEastPoint]

17. JFC if you look up DOUCHENOZZLE this would be the photo you'd see.

[dailytroubadour]

18. Jesus

Look at that photo. He looks like a third rate standup comic.

[LoveMyCali]

32. Sonny Crockett

hasn't aged well.

[coti]

21. "Self-extinction" is going to be Merriam-Webster's word of the year by the end of this nt

[localroger]

23. Not only never read the New Testament, never read the book of Job

There isn't a single word in the entire Bible imploring you to display manly pride in your faith. Quite the opposite, even in the Old Testament where humility before God is a major theme even when JHVH himself is busting enemy ass. It's obvious that these ministers have drunk a wee bit too much of their own koolaid, and they obviously really believe God will protect them from any threat if they worship hard enough. If they were simple shysters, they would know they are endangering their own lives, dignity, and future income stream by risking these gatherings.

[la-trucker]

24. Doesn't he realize that there will be fewer evangelicals

left to vote for Trump?

[KatyMan]

25. Join us! We have Kool Aid! N/T

[area51]

27. That hairdo looks familiar.

[randr]

29. I wouldn't let my children anywhere near this leech

[tblue37]

31. So it's really about proving how manly you are. nt

[tulipsandroses]

33. OK, I change my mind. Previously, I was not in favor of jail for these

religious folks. I said they should be fined. I change my mind. They need to be locked up for the good of society. What he is proposing, as far as I see it is akin to terrorism. They are a threat to the rest of us. They need to be locked up.

[Zambero]

34. Deathstock

Peace, Love & Death!

[Grins]

35. "No balls losers"?

“You’re a loser. Bunch of pansies. No balls.”

No “balls”? Yeah, that’s the kind of intellectual rigor we expect.

One thing you can say about the mainline religions - they are not a bunch of backwoods yabbos proud of being ignorant.

[jayfish]

36. Sounds Like A Terror Threat To Me. -NT-