Conservative radio host who fought COVID restrictions and vaccines dies of virus at 62

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Conservative radio host Pastor Bob Enyart, who fought against COVID-19 restrictions and criticized vaccines, has died from complications from the virus, his co-host said Monday. He was 62 years old.

“It is with an extremely heavy heart that my close friend and co-host of Real Science Radio has lost his battle with COVID,” Enyart’s co-host Fred Williams wrote on Facebook.

Enyart's last public appearance before his death from COVID-19 was at a conference in San Antonio, Texas, in mid-August, Williams said.

Enyart and his wife said they had “sworn off” getting the COVID-19 vaccine because, as they falsely claimed on Real Science Radio's website, the companies “tested these three products on the cells of aborted babies.” Neither Pfizer's nor Moderna's vaccine were tested on fetal tissue, and Johnson & Johnson's vaccine was tested on synthetic – not real – fetal cells.

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Enyart also successfully sued the state of Colorado last October over its COVID-19 restrictions that required masks in churches and limited the number of people attending services. The pastor had argued that the regulations were unconstitutional, and a judge ruled in his favor.

“We have the right, even the duty, to worship him [God]and without government interference,” Enyart told CNN after winning the case.

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Enyart is one of three conservative radio hosts to have died of COVID-19 in recent weeks. In late August, unvaccinated Nashville radio host Phil Valentine died of the virus at age 61 after a month-long hospital stay. His brother said before his death that Valentine “regretted not being more vehement in favor of vaccinations.”

A few days later, Marc Bernier, a conservative radio host from Daytona Beach, Florida, who called himself “Mr. Anti-Vax,” died of COVID-19 at the age of 65.

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