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Five times since March 2020 church leaders in California have taken Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom all the way up to the Supreme Court. Five times the High Court has slapped down some aspect of his authoritarian Covid lockdown measures as violations of the First Amendment’s guarantee to every American citizen of the right to worship and assemble without prior permission or limitation of government
The infamous Ninth Circuit has typically been there aiding and abetting Newsom, so the High Court’s most recent slap-down was aimed at both the liberals on that bench and California’s chief executive.
Despite the five reprimands, however, Newsom clearly has no intention of backing off of what surely appears to any reasonable observer to be a concerted campaign to bar as many California Christians as possible from observing the New Testament command at Hebrews 10:25 that they regularly “assemble together” for worship of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Whether he’s motivated by petty partisan pique because he thinks most of the Christians voted against him and his radical left-wing party cohorts or because he has a particular beef against their faith, Newsom routinely acts as an enemy of religious freedom.
Strict scrutiny is the High Court’s long-established doctrine that officials may not limit religious freedom unless they can present convincing proof that they are acting in the least intrusive manner and applying it equally, have no reasonable alternative, and are moving against a clear public health threat. Newsom has consistently failed on all three counts.
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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