The lawsuit filed says the governor's stay-home orders 'denigrated' churches around the state; the suit follows a similar one filed by a congregation in Campo
Another church has filed a lawsuit in San Diego federal court alleging the stay-home orders of Gov. Gavin Newsom illegally deprive them of their religious freedom under the U.S. Constitution because the orders prohibit communal services.
The claims are similar to those filed by another San Diego County church, Abiding Place Ministries, in April, as well as similar suits filed by other congregations around the state. A hearing is set for Friday in front of U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant. The suit says that California is one of eight states whose stay-home orders did not carve out an exception for churches, and charges that the order “criminalized all religious assembly and communal religious worship.”
“To be blunt, California’s present regime, which mandates that Californians who need the Spirit of Almighty God settle for the lesser spirits dispensed out of California’s liquor stores, is demeaning and denigrating to all persons of faith. Plaintiffs contend that, at least for their congregants, their assemblies are an ‘essential service’ and should therefore, because of fundamental First Amendment Protections, be treated equal to Stage 2 ‘essential’ businesses,” the lawsuit says.
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