CALI GOV NEWSOME ORDERED TO PAY $ 1.35 MILLION TO CHURCH OVER COVID

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CALI GOV NEWSOME ORDERED TO PAY $ 1.35 MILLION TO CHURCH OVER COVID
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gavin-newsom-to-pay-1-35-million-in-settlement-with-la-church-over-coronavirus-restrictions
California's Newsom ordered to pay $1.35M in settlement with LA-area church over coronavirus restrictions
The settlement amount is to repay the church's attorney costs and fees in the lawsuit brought against Newsom’s administration last summer.
By Brie Stimson | Fox News

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been ordered to pay $1.35 million in a settlement reached earlier this month with a Los Angeles-area church over a lawsuit related to the state's coronavirus restrictions.

Under the terms of the settlement, Newsom’s administration can no longer place restrictions on houses of worship, according to local newspaper Pasadena Now.

Mat Staver, founder of the Liberty Counsel, which represented the Harvest Rock Church of Pasadena, called Newsom the "worst governor in America" for religious liberty, according to the Washington Examiner.

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The church stayed open [during the lockdown], and the pastor and parishioners were threatened with daily criminal charges that were up to a year in prison."

The settlement amount is to repay the church's attorney costs and fees in the lawsuit brought against Newsom’s administration last summer.

"After nearly a yearlong battle defending our religious freedoms, our lawsuit has reached a permanent settlement in our favor," the Rev. Ché Ahn, founder of the church, said in a statement, according to Patch. "I am thrilled to see the complete reversal of the last discriminatory restrictions against churches in California."

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Newsom ordered non-essential businesses (of which churches were classified) to close in March 2020 in the first-in-the-nation lockdown as the virus began to spread across the state. In May of last year, the state amended the restrictions to allow 25% capacity in churches as long as it didn’t exceed 100 people.

The case brought by the chruch made it to the U.S. Supreme Court in February, according to Pasadena Now. In a 6-3 ruling, the court decided the church could allow 200 worshippers inside but said bans against singing and chanting could remain.

Newsom will likely face a recall election in the fall launched by critics of his coronavirus restrictions.


"Gov. Newsom’s COVID restrictions intentionally discriminated against churches while providing preferential treatment to many secular businesses and gatherings," Staver said, according to the Examiner. "What’s important is this ruling is permanent. He cannot ever do this again."

The settlement "resolves this case while providing clarity and certainty to the public around the public health standards applicable to places of worship following recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court," an official in Newsom's office told Newsweek in a statement.

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The settlement comes on the heels of a 5-4 Supreme Court decision last month that said California couldn't limit indoor, at-home. religious gatherings.

[ironglows]

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  This is a resounding win for Christians across the US!  A governor cannot shut down churches, unless he/she/it shuts down other equivalent population venues, in the same way.
  A tremendous SCOTUS win !

  NOTE:
  That case was litigated and won by a former vice president of Liberty University, Matt Staver.

  Matt Staver's Liberty Counsel regularly defends Christian ministries, and does a good job. Here is the link:

  https://lc.org/mat-staver             https://www.lc.org/

   

[ironglows]

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     We find that the Staver group represents many others, 42,000 evengelical Hispanic churches,  Here from the intro to their group;

  Mat Staver serves as Senior Pastor, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel; Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action, Faith and Liberty, National Pro-life Center, Freedom Federation, Salt & Light Council, and National House of Hope; Founder and Chairman of Liberty Relief International; Vice President and Chief Counsel of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (which includes over42,000 Evangelical Hispanic churches); former Vice President of Liberty University; former dean and tenured professor of law at Liberty University School of Law; Trustee of Timothy Plan, a New York and Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange-traded family of mutual funds; Trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society; Member of the Board of Reference of the Christian Film and Television Commission; Member of the Board of Advisors of Care for Pastors; Founder and former President of Staver & Associates; and Founder and former President of The Staver Group.

 Now consider if we as Christians are can evangelize as many of illegals as we can, how Biden's scheme would turn back to bite him!
  Sure, MS13, nor the cartels will be evangelized, but many come with family values of their own..
  and that is where we can make inroads.

[Dee]

I'd rather deport'em.

[ironglows]

I'd rather deport'em.

  I would also, considering they got here by illegal means. ..But sunce they are already here, and part of the Democ-rat plan to rig elections, we would do well to utilize our best convincer to win them over to intelligent choices.

[Dee]

Most Mexican and other south Americans lean in the catholic direction. Their uneducated, functionally illiterate, and will accept the "free stuff" even when they have a job.
They were a constant source of problems even in my past L.E. days. They come up to the United States already knowing how to game our systems, and that's their plan when they get here.
They don't collectively think like us, and to change their mindset is naive.
It takes generations to change such a culture.

To accept them and try to "convert them" is exactly what the liberal socialists hope you will do.

[Dee]

Now as far as the California governor paying that church. If I were the church, I wouldn't plan on getting that money.