The Rev. Tony Spell, an evangelical minister in touch with a Trump advisor, is holding religious services in spite of the state's stay-at-home order.
Despite a stay-at-home order this week from Louisiana’s governor, the Rev. Tony Spell was praying over a woman in his Baton Rouge church on Wednesday morning.
Critics posted a petition online demanding Louisiana officials charge Spell with reckless endangerment. More than 3,900 people have signed it.“Our lives matter! This minister is putting our lives in danger and needs to pay the price!” wrote petitioner Van Maulden of Zachary, La. Even before Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a stay-at-home order Sunday, many of the state’s churches had scaled back, canceling Mass and services. In New Orleans, the Rev. Fred Luter, past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told worshipers at the mega-church he built after Hurricane Katrina to watch online.“I preached to empty seats. They didn’t even do that during Katrina,” he said last week in the empty church. “It’s a new day.
Late Tuesday, about 300 people gathered at Spell’s Baton Rouge church, Life Tabernacle, where anointed handkerchiefs were passed out to parishioniers.
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