A Democrat-run college town in Idaho is paying out a $300,000 settlement to three churchgoers arrested during a 2020 outdoor 'psalm sing' that garnered national attention.
A liberal college townis paying $300,000 to three Christian churchgoers who sued the city after being arrested for not wearing masks at an outside service during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Footage of the arrests, which went viral and were condemned on Twitter at the time by then-President Trump, showed officers taking Rench's hymn book before leading him away in handcuffs to the county jail, where he and the others were detained for several hours. Rench and the others were charged with violating the city's repeatedly extended health ordinance, which carved out exemptions for activities protected under the U.S. Constitution and the Idaho State Constitution, includingA magistrate judge later dismissed the city's case against them, and U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England, Jr., wrote in his Feb. 1, 2023 memorandum and order
Rench told Fox News Digital that he has nevertheless become a pariah in his predominantly liberal community since the arrest and subsequent settlement. Rench says members of his community have accused him of being"an idiot" who does not"love his neighbor" and have urged him to"take your money and run" since the payout.
"I think it's no secret that portions of our government and political groups are now starting to target Christians in a way that has never really happened in America or Canada," he said, noting how he knows some of the"I'm in a conservative state, but I live in a liberal town, and the liberals had no problem arresting me for practicing my religious rights and," he said."But my [Republican] governor also didn't defend me either.
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