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The @Liberty_Ctr filed for a TRO in our suit against California and local officials for discriminating against religious institutions. State ban assigns faith to a 2d class status, below WalMart, pot stores, laundromats, alcohol stores, & other loopholes libertycenter.org/update-center-…
By creating a swiss cheese scheme rife w/arbitrary exceptions, arbitrarily enforced, CA does not meet constitutional standards for laws that burden religion. California dictates that faithful may only "gather" & pray via Zoom. This nation was founded on freedom of worship/
And there is no rational reason to apply a different standard to faithful and faith organizations than for other essential needs. We are asking the court to require California to apply an equal standard to gatherings. Now more than ever, many Californians view faith as essential!
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1/Pastors in Sonoma County were told by county leaders yesterday on a call that their churches would not be permitted to open until September, at the earliest. That's more than six months of the government telling churches and people of faith in California how they may worship: /
2/Many parts of Sonoma County and indeed, much of the interior of the state, is rural with limited or no broadband readily available. Religious organizations are based on regular meetings, in whatever manner, of the faithful. That is how the connect and renew their faith, & draw/
3/ Solace and comfort during difficult times, inspiration, hope, guidance, meaning at all times. To tell tens of millions of people of faith in California that they are not permitted to worship together, even using the same social distancing protocols "essential businesses"/
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Your friends are wrong. This argument stems from a bad decision by SCOTUS called Employment Division v. Smith. It needs to be revisited. Even under Smith, a law must be of “neutral application” — but where religious institutions have a lesser status than alcohol/pot, not neutral.
And besides that many states have a religious freedom restoration act in response to SMITH, which restores the high hurdle the government must meet to burden religion. Kentucky has such a law. We used to have a federal law like this but SCOTUS struck it down.
SCOTUS imposes broad abortion availability on all states but not religious freedom. That doesn’t mean the CONSTITUTION places religion into a second class status — it means a group of justices did, and that can change. And it should. And meanwhile “neutral application” applies!
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