Posted on 02/27/2021 6:37:03 PM PST by george76
The Supreme Court is telling California’s Santa Clara County that it can’t enforce a ban on indoor religious worship services put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The high court issued an order Friday evening in a case brought by a handful of churches.
The justices, in early February, told the state of California that it can’t bar indoor church services because of the pandemic. The justices said at the time that the state could cap indoor services at 25% of a building’s capacity and continue to bar singing and chanting.
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The justices’ unsigned order Friday said that their action was “clearly dictated” by their order from earlier this month. The court’s three liberal justices dissented.
Santa Clara had told the court in a letter Thursday that coronavirus cases in the county have recently continued to decline and that it was already close to lifting its ban on indoor gatherings. If the data continued the positive trend, the letter said, the county expected to allow all indoor gatherings, subject to restrictions, as soon as next Wednesday.
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What? How did they get standing?
Sad is we have to have this discourse in the first place.. the scum Roberts voted with the commies..
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-sides-church-challenging-165458877.html
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Then we need to get the people in the parish to read the responses, without chanting or inflection. I think this might be somewhat like the catacomb churches did it.
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