‘They’re Out for Blood’: Christian Man Wins Big After Mask Dispute, Delivers Warning

A church deacon and podcaster arrested in 2020 for refusing to wear a mask or social distance at an outdoor protest has won a legal battle against Moscow, Idaho, officials. Gabriel Rench told CBN’s Faithwire about the so-called “psalm sing” event he participated in on Sept. 23, 2020, to protest his former mayor’s public health order, which was put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The protest, which included peaceful singing, took place outside Moscow City Hall. “We like to sing psalms and hymns and protest,” Rench explained. “That’s how we like to respond to city and government overreach, and so we went to a ‘psalm sing’ protest.” He said the event was specifically designed to protest the city council and mayor’s “unconstitutional emergency order,” which had recently been renewed. “When you’re outside, you had to wear a mask or stand six feet apart, so if you weren’t wearing a mask you had to stand six feet apart,” Rench recounted. “If you’re wearing a mask, you could walk side by side.” While he said no one had, to that point, been cited for breaking the emergency order and no one had been arrested, that apparently changed that fateful September day. As soon as the singing began, Rench said cops started asking questions, and that led to a back and forth between Rench and one of the officers. He was arrested and charged with violating the health ordinance, though the charges were later dismissed. He later sued and recently won. Rench told CBN’s Faithwire he wants Christians to take a number of lessons away from his saga, urging them to be more convicted in the future about “what the Bible teaches about worship, about gathering for church.” “We need to be able to read the story better,” he added, expressing his worries that secular forces are intent on pushing abortion and other social issues on others. “They’re out for blood. They’re trying to win a cultural war and Christians have been, I think, too passive about the cultural war.” Rench added, “We need to be far more convicted about the Word of God in the public square than we are.”

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