Name: Authorities crackdown on churches, parties where stay-at-home orders are ignored | Nightline
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It's a warm spring evening in Louisiana and parishioners air gathering to worship at Life Tabernacle Church, just outside Baton Rouge.

Church's head Pastor Tony Spell welcomes his congregants.

Wear the Good Samaritan, the good faithful members of this church.

But in recent days, faster Spell has come under fire.

Stay at home order by holding service is we continue to worship and practice our First Amendment rights.

This past Sunday, Pastor Spell says, more than 1200 people gathered at his church.

Sermon was live, streamed and recorded by Central City News.

But with a number of covert 19 cases in Louisiana skyrocketing, some of the neighborhood were furies.

The Central Police Department says spell is in violation of the state order.

Spell has chosen to embarrass us for his own self promotion.

We're here today because of violations of governors.

Hours later, he was right back at it, holding service again to my church into the 9800 people who come through my doors.

Do not be intimidated to come to this building because of fear that has been put in you.

The number of covert 19 cases in our country continues to soar.

About three out of four Americans are under restrictions to stay home.

The president has extended nationwide social distancing guidelines through April 30 and yesterday's Corona Virus Task Force briefing, Dr Anthony Fauci, yet again stressed the administration's main message.

It's inconvenient from a societal standpoint from an economic standpoint to go through this.

But this is gonna be the answer to our problems.

But that hasn't stopped some people from going to crowded places and ignoring the distancing rule, forcing local and state governments to crack them, issuing fines, breaking up parties and conducting highway patrols in Rhode Island.

They're even checking license plates toe warn people from out of state to quarantine, and in some cases they've made arrest.

This'll live Stream Video posted to YouTube shows hundreds of people packed inside the River Tampa Bay church megachurch in Florida last Sunday.

People are going totally crazy, and I'm telling you right now this thing we gotta pray that God pull us out of this thing quickly, Pastor Rodney Howard Browne Health Service's despite a ban on non essential businesses in Hillsborough County, Sheriff's Office took action.

His reckless disregard for human life put hundreds of people in his congregation at risk and thousands of residents who may interact with them.

Today, he announced he will be shutting down the church this Sunday.

His attorney, Matt Staver, says the county's emergency order is unconstitutional.

We will be filing a lawsuit against not only the sheriff, but also this executive order, because it has so many exceptions.

Our constitutional rights don't disappear in the time of a virus, a crisis or any other emergency that we have.

We don't just simply erase our Constitution.

This is a complicated issue for a lot of people.

For people of faith, religious service is aren't a luxury in many states, liquor stores are open and many people of faith look at that.

And they say, well, if liquor stores are considered essential, service is certainly religious service is for a lot of people are essential.

Well, we have to remember that houses of worship are typically crowded, people are very close together.

There's a lot of talking, singing, close contact, hand shaking, hugging, kissing.

Those are all things that need to be avoided now.

Case studies show religious gatherings in several countries have been the source of outbreaks before, not just in the U.

The concern for large gathering stems from how easily covert 19 sprays back in early March, acquire from Washington state held a practice even as the state was grappling with infections and deaths at a Seattle area nursing home, we were aware that it was spreading fast.

The choir went ahead with his weekly rehearsal and took extra precautions on Lee.

We said that anyone that had any kind of pre existing conditions or even the sniffles should not come to this rehearsal.

We set up folding chairs for rehearsals with three times the distance between chairs, as we normally have everything, seeing fine until three days later.

I just had a fever and body aches, and I lost my sense of taste and smell.

I've got a fever of 101.6, and my husband got a fever.

Now, three weeks later, 45 members of the choir have been diagnosed with covert 19 or became ill with symptoms.

Even when bigger groups think they're doing everything right, there is still a danger precautions that we talk the guidelines that you followed, the theories about why so many people got sick from that one choir practice involved the possibility that there was a super spreader.

The other theory is that the virus can spread more than six feet with the respiratory droplets that air projected in the course of singing.

The third theory is that someone or multiple people could have been there and been completely asymptomatic, not known that they were infected with Corona virus.

To demonstrate how one gathering could have a massive impact, a company called Tectonics released.

This graphic illustration attracts the cell phone data footprint of a single beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during two weeks of spring break last month and then shows how those cellphones move as people traveled home, lighting up in locations all over the country, revealing just how easy white dispersal could be during a pandemic.

So far, Pastor Tony Spell says there's been no indication any of his congregants or ill.

I don't know anybody that has flu symptoms connected with anyone in our church.

They've been doing temperature checks at the door before service.

But health experts say that's not enough.

Flattening the curve to be clear is about actions that we can take that benefit other people.

In some ways, it's the most spiritually and the most faith based act that someone can.

The prayer of many doctors and nurses across America tonight to people of all faiths worship from home.

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