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The state s designation system also includes green and yellow tiers to note lower infection rates.
In addition to fines against the two churches, other remedies against the same conduct will be used, a health official said in a statement that didn t specify what they might be. The houses of worship may request a hearing to contest the penalties.
Legacy Church previously pushed back against the state s government and then-Health Secretary Kathy Kunkel in April, arguing that public health orders trampled religious freedoms. The argument proved unsuccessful in court.
U.S. District Judge James O. Browning found in July that the state s orders were unrelated to the suppression of speech or religion, serve a compelling state interest, and significantly less restrictive alternatives are not available.
A social media post on reddit regarding Legacy Church in Albuquerque. (SOURCE: REDDIT)
They sat close together hundreds of them holding candles in the cavernous sanctuary of Legacy Church on Christmas Day, few of them appearing to wear masks.
Photos and video of that gathering and a Christmas Eve service at Calvary Church have drawn public outrage on social media and on Monday the state Department of Health notified the two churches that they were each being fined $5,000 for violating New Mexico’s public health orders. Those orders, aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19, limit occupancy of churches and other public spaces, mandate the wearing of masks and urge social distancing.