Progressives are righteous advocates of the separation of church and state when the concept can be exploited to shut down traditional viewpoints or to marginalize Christianity. When churches can be used to ram the statist agenda down the congregation’s throat, they feel differently:

Many who have chosen not to get the COVID-19 shots have cited religious objections. Now Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s administration wants church leaders to bring vaccination events into churches.

Pennsylvania’s public health leaders want to “harness the power of community trust in statewide faith-based organizations” to convince folks to get a COVID-19 shot. That is according to the mission statement of the Faith-based Organization Coalition, which is being formed under the state’s Department of Health and is expected to launch April 11.

“Harness the power of community trust.” Our leftist ruling class harnessed the power of our trust in the media. That trust has been expended and no longer exists. Then they harnessed our trust in the scientific cognoscenti. Anthony Fauci frittered away the last of it. Now liberals will find public trust to betray wherever they can find it, even if it means holding their noses and setting foot in churches.

As usual with Big Government, the program will be financed at least in part by money confiscated from people who would be appalled to see it spent this way.

The state aims to reduce vaccine hesitancy through the “Local Innovations in Vaccine Equity in Pennsylvania” project (LIVE PA), which is a grant program that pays churches and nonprofits to speak with their people and persuade them to get vaccinated.

If there isn’t enough pushback, next bureaucrats will pay churches to denounce fossil fuels, praise Black Lives Matter, assure us that inflation isn’t that bad, proclaim that children should be subjected to genital mutilation on behalf of the LGBT agenda, et cetera.

There will be ever more of these church–state partnerships as churches are infiltrated, subverted, hollowed out, and subordinated to the one true religion recognized by our ruling class, moonbattery. Before long, the concept of separating church and state will fade from memory, like the Tenth Amendment.

On a tip from Henry.

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