’They’re Out for Blood’: Christian Man Wins Big After Mask Dispute, Delivers Warning

A church deacon and podcaster arrested in 2020 for refusing to wear a mask or social distance at an outdoor protest has won a legal battle against Moscow, Idaho, officials. Gabriel Rench told CBN’s Faithwire about the so-called “psalm sing“ event he participated in on Sept. 23, 2020, to protest his former mayor’s public health order, which was put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The protest, which included peaceful singing, took place outside Moscow City Hall. “We like to sing psalms and hymns and protest,“ Rench explained. “That’s how we like to respond to city and government overreach, and so we went to a ’psalm sing’ protest.“ He said the event was specifically designed to protest the city council and mayor’s “unconstitutional emergency order,“ which had recently been renewed. “When you’re outside, you had to wear a mask or stand six feet apart, so if you weren’t wearing a mask you had to stand six feet apart,"