I wrote once that they were related and the school and Staver made sure I knew they aren’t related.

If you live in Da Mitten (below Da Bridge), you’re a Troll.
If you live in Da U.P. above Da Bridge, you’re a Yooper.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, yes, they are.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/liberty-counsel

I don’t know of any “official” affiliation. However, Matt Staver, founder and chairman of liberty counsel, is also a law prof at Liberty U. And I suspect a great many (all?) of the lawyers at Liberty Counsel are grads of Liberty U. although, I can’t really tell if the “legal team” there consists of anything more than Staver and his wife.

Is Liberty Counsel affiliated with Liberty U, or do they just have similar names?

that’s the problem I don’t want the restaurant (or other businesses) to have my personal information (even just a phone number). Also, given how fast this was put together, I suspect there aren’t a lot of safe guards in place (i.e. HOW said businesses can use/protect that information) on the information that is collected.

As for contact tracing, cellphone (or even vehicle) location data to map that person’s movements for the previous week. then announcements put out to the public that if you were in certain locations at certain times, you may have been exposed.

I’m curious with the scheme proposed, how contact tracing is accomplished?

EX. you go to a store, give your information (which is to be kept only at that business), then 2 days later you test positive for covid-19. How does the contact tracing work at that point?

Sad but true- we are Michiganders and we live in a mitten!

Far right conservative Christians have had apersecution complex ever since they started venturing into politics with the Moral Majority back at the start of the 1980s.

It’s actually been called “Persecution Porn”, and is too long and convoluted to go into here.

If Trump loses in November, the wailing and gnashing of teeth is going to be deafening.

While making Young Earth Creationism and damning Darwin the Litmus Test of their Salvation.

As one TED Talk put it, “We have all the infrastructure in place for a full Surveillance Police State — all to get people to click on ads!”