Oregon church linked to 74 COVID cases to hold Mother's Day services: report - Raw Story

On Saturday, Business Insider reported that a church in Oregon is planning to move forward with a large, in-person Mother's Day service — even though the church has been linked to dozens of cases of COVID-19.

"During that time the church has continued to hold in-person services, according to videos and photos posted on its Facebook page.

Kate Brown in May of last year, seeking to force the lifting of orders restricting in-person church services as an infringement of religious liberty.

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NBC's "Saturday Night Live" skipped the show's traditional cold open skit and instead had musical guest Miley Cyrus lead the cast in playing tribute to their mothers.

As Elon Musk prepares to host "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, we can at least say that he's following in something of a grand tradition among his ilk.

The world learned the world's third richest person would commandeer "Saturday Night Live" two weeks ago by way of the evildoer's megaphone of choice, Twitter.

Indisputable is that millions of folks are indignant about Musk hosting, reportedly including several cast members who may not perform alongside him in Saturday night's episode.

But the main reason "SNL" mastermind Lorne Michaels said yes to such a controversial figure hosting the late night institution is as old as the medium itself, which is to lure in the curious and halt the season's downward rating trend.

"Saturday Night Live" experienced the same boost enjoyed and suffered by the mediasphere while Donald Trump was in office, remixing itself into a balm for our misery with its weekly trolls.

While Bowen Yang and Aidy Bryant released their own dismayed social media reactions to Musk's duh-dumb "Let's find out just how live Saturday Night Live really is," tweet, Michaels is probably correct to wager that they're outnumbered by folks who share Pete Davidson's bewilderment at not knowing why people are freaking out.

"And I'm like, the guy that makes the earth better, kind of, and makes cool things and sends people to Mars?" the comedian told Seth Meyers on a recent episode of "Late Night.".

One episode of "Saturday Night Live" won't shift that one way or another.

"Saturday Night Live" enables him to sell some version of himself, and whether of the parts he embodies has any basis in who is really is matter less that knowing he'll be in millions of people's living rooms and – ugh – bedrooms for 90 minutes.

These criticisms are based in moral and ethical concerns, and this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" audience probably won't be thinking about much of either.

They'll tune in to see whether Musk is funny, and he has a Twitter feed lousy with proof that he isn't, but that doesn't matter.

"Saturday Night Live" also made Rudy Giuliani come off as a mensch in 1997.

"Saturday Night Live" writers can and will massage Musk's persona into something palatable and they might even make cryptocurrency investors wet their pants by working a mention of Dogecoin into a skit.

Doing so would place "Saturday Night Live" in the headlines for reasons other than ratings on Monday morning.

Over its many decades "Saturday Night Live" featured hosts who turned out to be not-so-great people.

"Saturday Night Live" airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m.