Alberta allows retail to open at 25 percent capacity, while churches remain at 15 percent
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(LifeSiteNews) — The Alberta provincial government allowed retail businesses an increase in occupancy limits, but offered no such increase to churches, which remain capped at 15 percent. On Monday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced that retail businesses can increase their capacity limits to 25 percent.
One Christian pastor says that small size limits on places of worship are a “violation of charter rights” and “accomplish nothing,” as not a single person has been sick or has died from the virus in his church.
“The government’s restriction calling for a 15 percent capacity limit on churches not only is a violation of charter rights, but accomplishes nothing. Neither our congregation nor Grace Life Church, for that matter, have had any COVID infections associated with our worship services,” Pastor Patrick Schoenberger of Heights Baptist Church in Medicine Hat, Alberta, told LifeSiteNews.
Heights Baptist, like other Alberta churches such as Grace Life Church of Spruce Grove — whose Pastor is in jail — and Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, has been admitting worshipers beyond 15 percent capacity and does not make its churchgoers wear masks.
Schoenberger told LifeSiteNews that he does not see his church “as contributing to a public health crisis.” Rather, “we see our church ministering into a public health crisis created by government lockdowns.”
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