Jim Bakker seeks suit dismissal; ex-governor is his lawyer

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Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker is asking a judge to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus, and the lawyer representing Bakker is former Gov. Jay Nixon.

Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued Bakker and Morningside Church Productions Inc. in early March. Schmitt sought an injunction ordering Bakker to stop selling Silver Solution as a treatment for the coronavirus on his streaming TV program, The Jim Bakker Show. The lawsuit said Bakker and a guest made the cure claim during a program on Feb. 12.

In a court filing on Monday, Nixon — a Democrat who served two terms as governor before leaving office in 2017, and two terms as attorney general before that — called the lawsuit an assault on Bakker’s religious freedom. “Jim Bakker is being unfairly targeted by those who want to crush his ministry and force his Christian television program off the air,” Nixon said in a statement.

Nixon said Schmitt’s lawsuit violated Bakker’s constitutional right to free speech, as well as the Missouri Constitution and the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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[RainCaster]

1. Bakker needs to prove that his shit works- slather it on, inject the virus

Or else pay up

[Haggis for Breakfast]

2. This has nothing to do with his religious freedom.

Nor is it "an attempt to crush his ministry" or "force his christian ministry program off the air."

What the MO AG is telling Bakker is to stop yelling "cure" in a deadly pandemic.

I do not understand why this little slime merchant still has followers. Do they have amnesia or just never read his history ?