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Pastor Charles Clark III of the New Jersey Church That Defied State Orders To Reopen: ‘Church Is Essential’

‘These people have discouragement and depression and problems, including economic problems’

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CLARK: "The governor has discriminated against churches and mosques and against synagogues. Because we as a church have a First Amendment right and he’s chosen to say, Walmart, grocery stores, liquor stores, they can be open the whole entire time, and very directly, they’re not doing it nearly as safe as our church is doing it. And so he’s decided, according to whatever his guidelines that no one really knows for what is essential or not, church is essential. Our people are New Jersey citizens. You’re a Jersey girl, you know all about people loving their state. And here it is, as Jersey citizens, they’re being told their church is not essential. I understand a lot of people don’t understand why it is so important to us. But as believers, we assemble together. And these people have discouragement and depression and problems, including economic problems, they want to be with their pastors. And we’re doing as best we possibly can."

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