{"id":14376,"date":"2020-09-25T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=14376"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:58:14","slug":"police-arrest-three-christians-for-singing-hymns-during-outdoor-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2020\/09\/police-arrest-three-christians-for-singing-hymns-during-outdoor-worship","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Three Christians For Singing Hymns During Outdoor Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqRudnpjpag\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Three Christians were arrested in Moscow, Idaho for participating in an outdoor worship service. Was the arrest warranted?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Latah County commission candidate Gabe Rench, who is also one of the co-hosts of \u201cCrossPolitic\u201d a conservative politics show, was one of three who were arrested by police during a \u201cPsalm sing\u201d event that took place in a city parking lot, the Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys should not be doing this,\u201d Rench said while he was being escorted away in handcuffs. \u201cDoing this kind of crap for the mayor, this is embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to other reports, two others were arrested and charged for resisting and obstruction. While Rench was arrested, he was not charged.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, five people were cited by police for being in violation of Moscow\u2019s mask mandate, Faith Wire reports. They were also cited for violating social distancing orders during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Rench later told officers, \u201cYou guys are stronger than this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservative host gave more detail about the incident in a recent episode of his show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Christians were arrested in Moscow, Idaho for participating in an outdoor worship service. Was the arrest warranted? The Latah County commission candidate Gabe Rench, who is also one of the co-hosts of \u201cCrossPolitic\u201d a conservative politics show, was one of three who were arrested by police during a \u201cPsalm sing\u201d event that took place&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":16746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2772,2692,3144,2781,3141],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus-pandemic","tag-covid-19","tag-moscow-idaho","tag-singing","tag-singing-in-public"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police Arrest Three Christians For Singing Hymns During Outdoor Worship<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2020\/09\/police-arrest-three-christians-for-singing-hymns-during-outdoor-worship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Arrest Three Christians For Singing Hymns During Outdoor Worship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three Christians were arrested in Moscow, Idaho for participating in an outdoor worship service. 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