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Texas attorney general forbids local authorities from shutting down churches, religious schools
Bentley Media Group, ^
| July 18, 2020
| Daniel Payne
Posted on 07/18/2020 7:44:35 PM PDT by george76
They're 'protected by the First Amendment and Texas law,' A.G. says.
The attorney general of Texas yesterday ordered local authorities to cease any attempts to shut down churches and private religious schools, stating that those institutions are protected by both the U.S. Constitution and Texas statute. ..
A.G. Ken Paxton said that "the robust constitutional and statutory protections unique to religious individuals and communities at all times" prohibit local governments from closing them down, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.
...
local public health officials have [recently] begun to issue orders restricting or limiting in-person instruction" in private schools. In the letter, the attorney general said that "religious private schools and institutions" are exempt from those regulations.
"Under the Governor’s orders, local governments are prohibited from closing religious institutions or dictating mitigation strategies to those institutions," Paxton.. Local governments are similarly prohibited from issuing blanket orders closing religious private schools."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: church; churches; constitution; covid; covid19; firstamendment; kenpaxton; lockdowns; otders; paxton; religiousschools; schools; shuttingdown; texas; usconstitution
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:44:35 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:49:21 PM PDT
by
livius
To: george76
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:52:46 PM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: george76
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:55:21 PM PDT
by
Dawgreg
To: george76
To: george76
Seesh! Is there anywhere in this country that it’s not warring and fighting in the courts?
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:59:07 PM PDT
by
caww
To: george76
Local potentates need reigning-in strictly.
Guidelines -— OK. Great!!!
Mandates -— SHUV ‘EM
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:02:16 PM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
To: george76
Don't Mex with Texas!
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:24:24 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: george76
Praise God! So thankful for Ken Paxton. After what is happening in CA with the governor forbidding even small group Bible studies in homes, it is nice to see a person in authority who remembers we are still under the constitution!
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:25:44 PM PDT
by
boxlunch
(The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
To: Oscar in Batangas
Guidelines -— OK. Great!!!
Mandates -— SHUV ‘EMDictates -- SHOOT 'EM
If that be treason (or sedition) make the most of it!
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:27:17 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: george76
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:32:03 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
To: lightman
>>If that be treason (or sedition) make the most of it!<<
Once upon a time - not long ago - that was known as “freedom”
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:33:28 PM PDT
by
Oscar in Batangas
( January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: Oscar in Batangas; carriage_hill
Once upon a time - not long ago - that was known as “freedom” Some of us have not forgotten.
It is our SACRED DUTY to remind the rest!
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:41:31 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: Oscar in Batangas; carriage_hill
It is our SACRED DUTY to remind the rest! It is our SACRED OBLIGATION and, should we cower,
we shall be answerable to the very FIRES OF HELL!
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:45:59 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
07/18/2020 8:50:06 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: george76
Newsome pulled this crap off in CA and us getting sued by ACLJ. SEKULOWS GROUP
THRY WILL WIN
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posted on
07/18/2020 11:09:03 PM PDT
by
Truthoverpower
(The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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