Ways to worship in a pandemic

Steve- how about you mind your own business. If people want to worship in a church, what business is it of yours. With Biden and the Democrats in control, we need church more than ever. When did America become a county of whiners trying tell other people what they can and can't do that are. Going to church is a constitutionally protected and guaranteed by the recent Supreme Court decision. .

Sounds to me, Mr. Ortiz, that everyone would appreciate it if you worshiped and prayed all by your lonesome instead of going to church and spreading your intolerance to others. And if you don’t worship and pray, maybe you should start. Compassion and empathy need to start somewhere and going to church is a good place to start. Good luck.

To make sure our readers are not misinformed by the comments of one person, some clarification is in order. The United States Constitution was debated and put to parchment in the summer of 1787, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A number of those who were participants in the debates and its writing were doctors, such as Benjamin Rush, who taught medicine at the school of medicine founded by Benjamin Franklin. Hugh Williamson was also a doctor and had studied medicine in Edinburgh, London, and Utrecht. Were they aware of history, including pandemics? Of course they were. They relied upon the study of history hundreds of years back in order to glean what worked and what did not from past republics and other forms of government. While the understanding of medicine has certainly developed and become more sophisticated in today's world than it was in 1787, our response to the current virus and its spread is hardly what one could label sophisticated or modern, being no different in many respects than what was done in 1918 relative to the Spanish flu, although they did not go so far as we have in shutting down the economy and virtually all social activity. Consider even the wearing of masks and Dr. Fauci's back and forth recommendation to not wear a mask, then wear a mask, and one can see that confusion and indeterminate guidance exists even in our day. To close, one thing our Founders and Framers did have a firm grasp of is the theme of Liberty. It is an area of understanding we could use to revisit and gain back into our society.