Posted on 04/14/2020 7:49:41 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (April 14, 2020) — Three Southern California churches that want to keep their doors open during the coronavirus outbreak sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials on Monday, arguing that social distancing orders violate the First Amendment right to freedom of religion and assembly.
The suit, filed in the federal court for the Central District of California, also names state Attorney General Xavier Becerra and officials of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
The suit seeks to block Newsom’s month-old stay-at-home order and two county orders designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 by having people mostly stay at home, closing businesses except for those deemed essential and barring group gatherings. The orders don't list houses of worship among the critical infrastructure where face-to-face contact is permitted.
A message to the governor’s office seeking comment was not immediately returned.
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So proud! Keep it up!
Thank God.
Yup. The nation’s patience with this is starting to run out.
Yeah, they just MUST go and open their billfolds for the church. People are so stupid it stings.
Agree. I am not willing to go sit in a pew, share a bathroom, or be in a room where everyone’s mouth had been open to sing in one room. Thst is what is in a church on Sunday mornings.
It is not smart.
A Catholic friend of mine summed it up pretty well: Those people who must absolutely go to church no matter what must be in dire need of Absolution.
Church’s negative cash flow too. Empty collection plates for several weeks now.
How about religious persecution and discrimination? How many mosques were shut down? How many Mohammedans paid any attention?
Have to prove that “shall make no law” actually means what it says.
If we don’t we’ll regret it later.
The Bill of Rights is clear on this matter. Government does not have the power to restrict religious gathering! We do not live in communist China!
Have any mosques been closed?
Gov Cuomo declared that churches and synagogues should be closed permanently. No mention of mosques.
It would be interesting to see how mosques have remained open during the last 6 weeks.
This is California.
That little 1st Amendment, it doesn’t apply here.
Its easy to google and find out. The ones in Denver have been closed same as the churches. I didnt do an extensive check but I did google just to see.
This restriction has nothing to do with any religion.
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It has to do with restricting freedom of assembly when that assembly poses an unseen lethal danger to the attendees.
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That’s the reason we have a Constitution. To keep us from committing suicide by harming each other.
Good!
For Easter, a federal judge wrote a luminous decision defending religious liberty
The Resurrection is Against the Law
An excerpt from Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s classic Seasons of Faith and Conscience (1991).
The sealing of the tomb is, I believe, notoriously misunderstood. I grew up with a Sunday School notion that to seal the tomb was a matter of hefting the big stone and cementing it tight. The seal, in my mind’s eye, was something like first-century caulking–puttying up the cracks to keep the stink in. Not so. This is a legal seal. Cords would be strung across the rock and anchored at each end with clay. To move the stone would break the seal and indicate tampering.
The event conspicuously echoes the story of Daniel sealed in the den of lions. “And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel” (Daniel 6:18). As there, this is a legal lock on the tomb door–not air tight, but politically tight. To move the stone and break the seal is a civil crime. The resurrection is against the law.
The seal is also a recurring theme in the book of Revelation. Remember the scroll of history sealed with seven seals? Only One is worthy to break them and look upon or unveil the truth: that One is the Lamb who was slain. The seal is a claim of ownership and authority. Its meaning in Revelation is at least that God in Christ reigns sovereign over all history and in all events.
Caesar, in Pilate, on the other hand, violently disputes the claim. He has set his seal of approval on Jesus’ death, and now he guarantees it with troops. Secured by security forces. When the seal is broken in the resurrection, it stands among the signs that the power of the powers (death in all its forms) has been broken. The dominion of political authority–especially inflated, aggressive–and imperial authority has been cut to the heart.
Most of the store shop owners in my (L.A.) neighborhood are Bangladeshi and a few have told me they have not been going to Friday prayers. I think they are closed.
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