Posted on 06/15/2020 5:15:44 PM PDT by marshmallow
SALEM, Ore. (CN) — Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s ban on large church services, intended to slow the spread of Covid-19, was within the law, Oregon’s high court ruled Friday morning.
A group of churches led by Elkhorn Baptist Church sued the governor May 6, claiming her March 23 stay-at-home order, and its subsequent extension until July 6, is longer than the Oregon Constitution allows. The churches claim the order violates their free exercise of religion by barring nonessential social and recreational gatherings.
Baker County Circuit Judge Matthew Shirtcliff sided with the churches, issuing a preliminary injunction that would have allowed them to open.
Brown immediately asked the Oregon Supreme Court to issue a peremptory writ of mandamus vacating the injunction. And in a three-paragraph order, the Oregon Supreme Court granted Brown’s emergency motion to stay.
In his original ruling, Shirtcliff noted Brown “has an enormous responsibility” to protect Oregonians during the pandemic but said social distancing measures can be practiced at churches just as they are at other businesses deemed essential.
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They should just say they are having a blm riot indoors. ...then everything would be OK.
Screw them....meet anyway.
Churches Have the Same Rights as Protests, DOJ Tells Maryland County
Catholic News Agency ^
Posted on 6/15/2020, 5:01:01 PM by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Jun 12, 2020 / 11:00 am MT (CNA).- The Justice Department (DOJ) praised a Maryland county council on Wednesday for protecting the First Amendment rights of protesters and said it now expects them to extend the same protections to religious gatherings.
In a June 10 letter to the Montgomery County Council, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division praised the county’s permitting of public anti-racism protests in spite of its current restrictions on public gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. He added that the county should give religious gatherings the same recognition.
“Your support for peaceful assembly and speech follows the best of our nation’s traditions,” Dreiband told Montgomery County, which borders Washington, D.C.
Protesters took to the streets in recent weeks in the Washington suburbs of Germantown, Bethesda, Gaithersburg, and other parts of the county, despite public health orders against “social, community, recreational, leisure, and sporting gatherings and events of more than 10 people.”
“Of no less importance, of course, is the First Amendment’s protection for religious exercise,” Dreiband said of the protests. He added that “we anticipate” that the council would amend the executive order to allow for religious gatherings as part of “the full range of rights protected by the First Amendment.”
The county council issued a public statement of support for the protests against racism on June 1, the same day that a county executive order continued restrictions on in-person religious gatherings because of the threat of their spreading the pandemic.
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Don’t forget lighting buildings on fire. Thats an essential step to combating the virus.
Portland has antifa lynch mobs assaulting people for making a wrong turn into gang-occupied roads (see also: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1272208912133971968) but you can’t go to church.
A ruling against churches from SALEM. Thing about it.... You can’t make this stuff up....
How is Kate “lockdown” Brown going to justify opening the public schools and colleges?
Our side should be suing her to keep them shutdown,until they open up the churches.
Tit for tat.
Burn the despot in effigy -- at the stake.
“All laws that are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”
Marbury v. Madison
This was back before the court had all the Marxists on it!
Regardless of who makes some asinine ruling like the one SCOTUS did the other day, (limits on church attendance) .. rulings like that one are unconstitutional and only by the people obeying these types of rulings can they stand!
Looks like the people have given up their rights in all areas.
The Constitution Does Not give the people any Rights .. those come from God!
The Constitution is a limit on the Government .. by the People!
Seems that various members of the courts, including the SCOTUS and especially John Roberts missed that part of the lesson in law school!
Oregon ping. ...go to church...call it an autonomous zone
We can no longer rely on either political leadership or the judicial system Christians are going to have to rise up and confront the evil that is sweeping the USA or be persecuted and subjugated in a socialist/communist America.
Right, Lefties and Karens?
Most Christians would rather stay home and be fed by the goobermint and swallow Marxist propaganda.
I keep saying the Church will have to go underground now to survive. Immoral and unethical politicians are trying to destroy it and the only place people will be able to meet is outside the walls of a traditional church building; homes.
Sorry but did you honestly think the book of Revelations was just good Science Fiction?
A bad day at the courts today for religious believers, what with this and the Supreme Court decision today.
dem judges, no doubt.
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