Pastor James Coates has been arrested in Canada for church service against coronavirus regulations and his wife, Erin Coates, is now speaking out against the injustices in the country that raised her.
“This is definitely not the country I grew up in,” she told Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday. “I think for a while that our freedoms were just slowly removed from us, and so eventually so slowly that we did not even realize it.”
Coates said her husband, a pastor who ‘gave his life to sacrifice and love other people’, is behind bars, shocking no one, illustrating how Canadians become insensitive to their stripped-down freedoms.
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“We are currently on a dangerous path,” she said. “And I think because we’ve been in the pot cooking for so long that people do not really realize the danger we face as a nation.”
While officials internationally choose who is being prosecuted for disobeying pandemic orders, the pastor’s wife said she believes her husband was singled out by an ‘enemy’ who is against the Christian faith.
“Yes, we have an absolute, real enemy and he uses people to direct the ministers of God,” she said. “We know it through Scripture; we know it through church history. And that’s why I really believe they are being targeted in our country.”
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James Coates has been denied bail but is believed to be released in the near future, with at least one more charge. His wife reported that he was having a difficult time in prison.
“He is unable to take care of the people he loves, he cannot challenge his mind, and cannot serve as he would like to serve people,” she said. “It’s hard for him.”