Washington Republican gubernatorial candidate sues to lift restrictions on religious activities

Joshua Freed, a Republican candidate for governor, filed a lawsuit Wednesday over restrictions placed on religious gatherings under Washington’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, seeks an emergency injunction to lift a portion of Governor Jay Inslee’s March 23 order that bans “all public and private gatherings and multi-person activities for social, spiritual and recreational purposes, regardless of the number of people involved, except as specifically identified herein.”

“You can’t publicly, privately, indoors, outdoors go have a time of prayer with somebody who might share your same faith,” Freed told Q13 News. “What I’ve challenged is that our First Amendment rights are being stolen and violated during this period of time under Jay Inslee’s ‘Stay Home’ order.”

The lawsuit claims Freed, a practicing Christian, has standing to challenge the ban on religious activities in part because he and his wife have hosted bible studies at their home for the past two-and-a-half years.

“The number of attendees is small, and Mr. Freed’s home allows the services to be held outdoors when weather permits,” according to the filing.

Inslee’s “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order, a response to the Coronavirus pandemic, is currently set to expire May 4, although the governor said in an address to the public Tuesday evening that many of the order’s restrictions would not be lifted at that time.

"What I’ve challenged is that our First Amendment rights are being stolen and violated during this period of time under Jay Inslee’s ‘Stay Home’ order."

Patriots are reminded that Thomas Jefferson was using his G-d-given common sense when he wrote the following about personal rights versus troubled times.

"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest. the [sic] laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. to [sic] lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means [emphasis added]." —Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, 20 September 1810.
"Whatsoever is lawful in the Commonwealth or permitted to the subject in the ordinary way cannot be forbidden to him for religious uses; and whatsoever is prejudicial to the Commonwealth in their ordinary uses and, therefore, prohibited by the laws, ought not to be permitted to churches in their sacred rites. For instance, it is unlawful in the ordinary course of things or in a private house to murder a child; it should not be permitted any sect then to sacrifice children. It is ordinarily lawful (or temporarily lawful) to kill calves or lambs; they may, therefore, be religiously sacrificed. But if the good of the State required a temporary suspension of killing lambs, as during a siege, sacrifices of them may then be rightfully suspended also [emphasis added]. This is the true extent of toleration." —Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776.

The CDC is saying that if we don’t get virus spread down enough before starting to resume normal activities then a second wave of SARS-CoV-2 spread could be worse than the first one.

CDC Director Says 'Second Wave' of Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Even Deadlier

On the other hand, the virus may go away with the oncoming warm weather like the flu does.

New study says 'high temperature and high relative humidity significantly reduce' spread of COVID-19

Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping COVID-19 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.

MAGA, also KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!)

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