Pastors Who Defied Government Orders to Close Churches
Showing 5 Church Closures videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Pastor Rob McCoy describes personally reopening his California church in defiance of Governor Gavin Newsom's pandemic-era order classifying religious services as "non-essential," an act of civil disobedience he and Charlie Kirk later framed as consistent with Romans 13's teaching on legitimate resistance to unjust government authority. Representative Jim Jordan's 2020 congressional questioning of Dr. Anthony Fauci highlighted the same underlying tension, pressing Fauci on why churches, beaches, and small businesses faced strict enforcement action while mass BLM protests during the same period went largely undiscouraged by public health officials. Glenn Beck and McCoy separately discuss the ongoing imprisonment of Pastor Son, a South Korean minister leading a 15,000-member congregation who defied his own government's pandemic-era closure orders, framing his continued detention as part of a broader global pattern of government pressure on churches that Charlie Kirk had personally committed to supporting before his death.