Posted on 08/14/2021 6:52:15 PM PDT by marshmallow
On Tuesday, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed HB542, the New Hampshire Religious Liberty Act (full text). The law provides in part:
[D]uring a state of emergency, the state government shall permit a religious organization to continue operating and to engage in religious services to the same or greater extent that other organizations or businesses that provide essential services that are necessary and vital to the health and welfare of the public are permitted to operate.
Under the statute, the state may still require religious organizations to comply with neutral health, safety, or occupancy requirements, but must meet a strict scrutiny test if the requirement imposes a substantial burden on a religious service.
(Excerpt) Read more at religionclause.blogspot.com ...
Excellent.
Unnecessary.
The “free exercise” clause coveres it perfectly.
I hate it when law makers repeat existing laws.
Do they think they need to EMPHASIZE existing laws with NEW laws in order to enforce them?
A good example is “hate” crimes. I especially hate hate crimes, hateful things.
God led us to a great state.
What I find amusing and interesting is how much what is happening in NH is flying under the media radar.
Technically, you are right.
However, I like that it’s clearly defined like that.
I think it leaves a lot less room for the courts ending up making legislation through litigation.
I think it also strengthens them against federal over reach and can work in a state’s rights case.
Historically, mass-casualty domestic violent extremist attacks linked to RMVEs have targeted houses of worship and crowded commercial facilities or gatherings. Some RMVEs advocate via online platforms for a race war and have stated that civil disorder provides opportunities to engage in violence in furtherance of ideological objectives. The reopening of institutions, including schools, as well as several dates of religious significance over the next few months, could also provide increased targets of opportunity for violence though there are currently no credible or imminent threats identified to these locations.Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland
20th anniversary of 9/11 could inspire extremist attacks, DHS says
Excellent.
I hope Abbott will do the same (if he hasn’t, already. I’ve not heard of it, if he has.)
Racially- or ethnically-Motivated Violent Extremists
That *is* the problem, so how to undermine a simple law:
[D]uring a state of emergency, the state government shall permit a religious organization to continue operating...
In this manner, the lord god government giveth, and the lord god government taketh away.
It's like those "defense of marriage" laws. Government slithers its way in to legislate definitions of obvious natural truths [that it has no authority to define], then subsequently redefines them as it sees fit. Dissenters crushed by the full weight of the law.
Then people wonder how all of the dysfunction and destruction snaked in.
Nobody wants simple because in confusion there are instructions to follow and complain about, endless solutions to market, money to be made, demons to demonize and saviors to worship, and shocked faces to wear when the inevitable happens.
Hopeless paralysis is justified because, well who can ever get anything done? The lineage of the Can't-Do victim mindset started with Cain.
Simply put, Cain was not... Abel.
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Based upon that document, most all of us here are now classified as AGVE.
Predictably, Face Book declared Religion Clause as “sensitive” and greyed it out so no one could see or read. So I cut and pasted the data and posted it anyway!
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