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As a pro-freedom columnist for the pro-freedom National Post, I am often asked if I have anything to say about Canada’s headline-making lockdown refuseniks. There was Toronto barbecue pitmaster Adam Skelly, for example, who declined to keep his restaurant closed or, apparently, to implement any anti-COVID measures when he brazenly reopened. And there is Edmonton-area pastor James Coates, who keeps hosting prohibited services at his GraceLife Church and allegedly not enforcing any social-distancing or masking rules.
My basic answer is that if people aren’t going to take the most basic precautions on their fellow citizens’ behalf, I’m not going to go to bat for them. That you should be able to eat in a restaurant or worship at church during the COVID-19 pandemic are very arguable positions, to which I am sympathetic (and hungry). That you should try to keep your distance from people you don’t live with really isn’t an arguable point. The virus doesn’t sp
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04-04-2021
After spending a month behind bars for holding in-person worship services in violation of government capacity mandates, Canadian Pastor James Coates was released from jail with thunderous applause.
Coates, a pastor at GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta, shared the powerful moment during an interview with Rebel News’ Sheila Gunn Reid. As the number of voices facing big-tech censorship continues to grow, please sign up for Faithwire’s daily newsletter and download the CBN News app, developed by our parent company, to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.
“Just to kind of show the affection that we had for each other, in the moment I was leaving, I turned around … and I lifted up my hand to wave,” he recalled, “and the doors of the pod began to shake as the men in their cells just banged on their doors as a sign of support, love, [and] affection.”