From the Dakota Scout comes the announcement that GOP leaders had been working on toughening penalties for threatening worship services:
Rhoden, flanked by Republican lawmakers, announced the introduction of Senate Bill 113 Friday during his weekly press conference. And there was no mystery as to the provenance of the bill. Rhoden and GOP leaders cited the incident in St. Paul Sunday where illegal immigration activists burst into a church, disrupted the service and refused to leave.
“Just last week, religious freedom came under assault, just a few hundred miles from here in the Twin Cities,” Rhoden said. “That should trouble every single American, and it certainly troubled me. We’re here to announce a plan to make sure that that doesn’t happen in South Dakota.”
In light of this already existing bill that had already been in motion, already had assignment and is moving forward, it makes the late-night facebook announcement by Brandei Schefbauer come off as a me-too effort, trying to insert herself into the narrative on the effort that Governor Rhoden and legislative leadership had already been working on in an attempt to look important.
(Guessing House leadership didn’t invite the whips in on that one).
I read Mehlhaff’s bill last night (SB113) so it appears her ranting was because his was published and hers wasn’t even drafted yet.
Seems like a very Shad-y thing to do, on par with this dynamic duo.
Well then how about banning all fake Christians
that refuse to follow the teachings of Christ from
Church?
Works for me Kristi.
How about the crying baby in the pew behind you. Felony or misdemeanor?
More felony arrests. Further need to build more jails and prisons. These stump jumpers never learn
Does this include ICE if the invade a church?
I think this link says it all.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTyNZ5FkSGq/?igsh=Z282MG5ldXduMXk3
Standard attack on constitutional 1st amendment right to be free FROM religon. Exactly what I would expect from the dumber half of the Noem/ Rhoden regime.
So if and when Jesus of Nazareth comes back, walks into a South Dakota church or temple, disrupts service, flips tables criticizing them for not being Christlike and going against his teachings, Governor Rhoden’s and Trump Party/MAGA Leadership bill will have him arrested, charged, convicted as a felon?
Now we have Schaefbauer’s and Rhoden supporters of this bill who are enthusiastically calling for everyone to be armed. Jesus could be shot and killed this time unlike being crucified last time?
It may be a prophet too.
Well, this post was a perfect example of stupid, from a stupid person.
No. This and the other related bill are perfect examples of a solution in search of a problem. South Dakota already has a law on the books dealing with the extreme rarity of this even happening. These elected officials are incapable or are unwilling to work on real issues everyday South Dakotans are facing during our very short legislative session. Unless there is political change we may as well start having legislative session every two years like some states. It would save taxpayers time, money and reduce the amount of damage these politically extreme elected officials could do the state.
No it won’t. They will just schedule summer studies. I would like to FOIA the cost of the Property Tax Summer study.
A decade ago, a small group of protesters in Rapid City stood with signs outside a shiny new church, built on the more affluent west side, questioning the money spent on brick and mortar and not on the widows, the orphans, the destitute, the sick, the prisoners. Church deacons were quick to get them to move along and go away, and not bother them with silly arguments. The deacons I’m sure would see the wisdom in this kind of law, and embrace the comfort it provides.
Protesting shouldn’t be an easy thing even when it IS easy – the power of a protest that has a cost attached to it is the unintended consequence of a bill like this. That would be reason enough to leave well enough alone, for those wise enough to understand.
Exercise your right to legally protest in a mosque during their worship and see how that goes.
Go busting into an urban evangelical superchurch and the armed ushers there will leave you with a few new leaks too.
And in both examples the incident would go national in minutes, but for different reasons. In the first, the protesters would be labelled Islamophobes and racist. In the second, the armed ushers would be labelled as extremists and the whole church a white supremacists and would be accused of violating the protesters civil rights.
Oh no, the Muslim shooting would be called sectarian or racist violence, while the megachurch guards would be lauded for halting a mass casualty incident.