![]() “We have demonstrated that the real threat to Albertans are the lockdown measures. “I think that we have demonstrated clearly that the threat to Alberta is not COVID-19, it is AHS ,” he later added. ![]() ![]() But even now, they are taking on a fight that is way beyond them.” It certainly will not go well in the end. “They are going toe-to-toe with the Lord Jesus Christ,” he said. For the Alberta Government to request an adjournment of the May 3 trial of Pastor Coates is outrageous, while at the same time entering onto the church’s private property and putting up fencing with hired security.ĭuring a recent interview with radio host Gabriel Rench, who was himself arrested in Moscow, Idaho, last fall for participating in an outdoor psalm sing without a mask, Coates said the overreach of Alberta’s government against his church has actually induced “a little bit of excitement” in him. By May 3, the government will have had fourteen months to assemble proper medical and scientific evidence to justify lockdowns. The government has had thirteen months to put together a scientific and medical basis to justify its violations of our fundamental Charter freedoms. We are now in our thirteenth month of Charter-violating lockdowns, in what was supposed to be a temporary two-week measure to flatten the curve. The Alberta government is now seeking to delay Coates’ scheduled May 3 trial, to which Carpay responded with outrage: Health orders are inconsistent, differing from province to province, and arbitrarily created by one public health official who is under no obligation legally to advise the legislatures of the science and rationale which supposedly are the basis of the orders,” he added. “The government has so far refused to justify the limits on worship and gathering. It is listed first because it is one of the key bedrock principles on which Canada is built,” Carpay wrote in a press release. “Freedom of conscience and religion is the first fundamental freedom listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Speaking of Coates, Carpay said, “It’s a small minority of people that have this level of courage to actually suffer for their beliefs.” “ I’m simply here in obedience to Jesus Christ, and it’s my obedience to Christ that has put me at odds with the law.” “I realized that’s the way society is going to perceive what’s happening here,” Coates said. qJlnHHGGdVĪppearing before provincial court Judge Jeffrey Champion in an orange-and-black jumpsuit, Coates emphasized during his court appearance that he had no intention of being “a political revolutionary” and that he was simply trying to obey Jesus. The same church whose pastor was thrown in prison for 35 days. Except this is in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Like China does when they uncover an illegal “house church”. I count thirteen vehicles as part of this police raid on a church. A police checkpoint assembled to prevent congregants from going on the property. local time on Wednesday, RCMP and private security contractors erected a chain link fence around the building of GraceLife Church, which is about 15 miles southwest of Edmonton. John Carpay, who is president of the Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, spoke to The Daily Wire on Friday about his client’s case against the Albertan authorities, which he presented as a fight for the “fundamental rights and freedoms” of the Western world.Īt approximately 6 a.m. The pastor and legal counsel for the church in Alberta, Canada, that was raided and physically barricaded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Wednesday remain defiant as provincial authorities clamp down in the name of COVID-19 precautions. ![]()
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