Jim Bakker claims his selling a fake "cure" on his show is "religious freedom..."

[Archae]

This convicted felon needs to go back to JAIL.

Preventing Jim Bakker From Selling a Bogus COVID-19 Cure Is an Unconstitutional Restriction on His Religious Liberty, Says His Legal Team
By Kyle Mantyla | May 5, 2020 2:35 pm

End Times pastor Jim Bakker has been facing various financial and legal problems ever since he used a February episode of his television program to promote a silver solution sold by his network as a possible cure for the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Bakker is currently being sued by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt “for misrepresentations about the effectiveness of ‘Silver Solution’ as a treatment for 2019 novel coronavirus.” Yesterday, Bakker’s legal team issued a press release announcing that it had filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against Bakker, who they claim “is being unfairly targeted by those who want to crush his ministry and force his Christian television program off the air … This case is about religious freedom.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/preventing-jim-bakker-from-selling-a-bogus-covid-19-cure-is-an-unconstitutional-restriction-on-his-religious-liberty-says-his-legal-team/

[crickets]

1. This huckster is dangerous. Lock him up AGAIN and throw away the key this time. nt

[Newest Reality]

2. And...

And the Lord said: "Let them be paranoid and claim religious freedom to make a fortune. For he who has a show is in my sight because I watch it on Dad's, Celestial TV."

[mr_lebowski]

3. Good. They should crush his phony, dangerous 'ministry' ...

Unless he's going to stick to selling Holy Water as a means to absolve you of your sins or some actual religious shit.

[MissMillie]

4. Has nothing to do with religion

NO ONE should be selling this crap. No one should claim that it's a cure for covid-19.

Fraud doesn't cease to be fraud just because he has a church.

[sakabatou]

5. Yeah.... no

Bakker needs to go behind bars and his assets taken away.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. dadgum big govmint comin between real murican grifters and their marks....

[keithbvadu2]

7. How about the religious freedom to stone someone to death?

How about the religious freedom to stone someone to death?

Would there be a Biblical punishment of death for fraud?

Or causing someone to die?

[gratuitous]

8. The deity of that religion is call mammon, right Jim?

It's right there in the Bible, after all.

[Celerity]

9. lock this fucking berk up for life, he clearly isn't going to stop being a clear & present danger