Posted on 05/31/2020 1:12:09 PM PDT by Bob Ireland
A sharply divided Supreme Court late Friday turned aside a church's urgent plea that California's coronavirus lockdown orders are putting an unconstitutional burden on religious freedom.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberals in rejecting a San Diego church's request for relief from Gov. Gavin Newsom's most recent directive limiting churches to 25% of their normal maximum capacity, with an absolute maximum of 100 people at any service.
In a three-page opinion {pdf} issued just before the stroke of midnight Washington time, Roberts said it would be unwise for the court to intervene on an emergency basis as state officials try to grapple with the ebb and flow of a pandemic caused by a highly infectious and sometimes deadly virus.
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The court's four other GOP appointees dissented, with three of them joining in an opinion written by the court's newest member, Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh. He said the California policy "indisputably discriminates against religion."
"I would grant the Church’s requested temporary injunction because California’s latest safety guidelines discriminate against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses. Such discrimination violates the First Amendment," Kavanaugh wrote. "Absent a compelling justification (which the State has not offered), the State may not take a looser approach with, say, supermarkets, restaurants, factories, and offices while imposing stricter requirements on places of worship."
I have read that it is an illegal {foreign} adoption. Further up-thread someone mentions homosexuality. As JarJar Binks might say: Meesa not know.
Roberts has demonstrated he is against judicial activism. He avoids making decisions based on political bias which could be a good thing.
The problem is he wont help remedy an abuse if he can find an argument he even marginally agrees with not do so.
Leaving him only reliable to help with clear constitutional violations.
It has to be more than that.
HAMR is a good possibility. What is 'PWNED'?
Roberts turns out to be one of the worst appointments
... and unlike such other communist/nazi trash that’s been put on the court, Roberts wasn’t even honest enough when nominated to admit his leftist predilictions
a serious weakness in our republic was, is how so few bad apples in the wrong positions can destroy our country/constitution/liberties
as John Adams said, ““Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
I don’t dare comment on what I’m thinking now.
As an amateur linguist I never use the term 'gay' in this context. I have tired of the Left redefining all my words to suit themselves.
As far as 'more than that' - so it would seem (to me), although the adoption analysis does bear credibility.
Great optics if the police try to remove a thousand or so church goers when they let the antifa and mob destroy cities.
You quote John Adams; also, Thomas Jefferson wrote that one of the greatest dangers to the Republic could be a growing tyranny of the judges. We would appear to have reached that point. I hope we can learn to impeach some of these rogue justices rather than first resort to another revolution.
As for the churches, they have to be willing to go to jail rather than suffer being shut down on any pretext. As Bob Ireland said to the tyrant governors: Let there be political prisoners. Freedom is not free - it is earned.
:^) You anticipated my post just following yours.
This is my surprised face
The a$$wipe strikes again.
A prominent quake player mis spelled “owned” and the new word
“pwned” was adopted by people
“’Pwn’ is a lot like the sense of ‘own,’ which means ‘to have
power or mastery over (someone),’” the Merriam-Webster
dictionary explains. “It has also been used to describe the
act of gaining illegal access to something.”
If the church had worn black hoods and threw bricks at Target stores, he’d have no problem with their worship service.
[I hope we can learn to impeach some of these rogue justices rather than first resort to another revolution.]
Yes; to me it suggested 'pawn-ed' as being made a pawn, but I was just guessing.
Especially if they performed abortions!
Ignore it. Open the churches and dare them to arrest everyone.
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