SACRAMENTO, CA The California Third District Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that a 2017 state law requiring employees at long-term care facilities to use patientsâ âpreferredâ pronouns violates First Amendment free speech rights.
Taking Offense, an unincorporated association, filed the lawsuit challenging part of Californiaâs Health and Safety Code that requires health facility employees to deny a personâs biological sex and acknowledge a âchosenâ gender or pronoun of a patient. Employees who refused to do so would have faced criminal charges for âmisgenderingâ a resident. Violations could be prosecuted as misdemeanors and violators could face 180 days in jail and a $2,500 fine.
The city of Chicago has dismissed both âdisorderly conduct and mob actionâ citations against Pastor Cristian Ionescu of Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church and Pastor Florin Cimpean of Philadelphia Romanian Church for holding a morning and an evening service on May 17, 2020. The pastors were charged for having more than 10 people in their large sanctuaries for worship.
Liberty Counsel represents Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church and Logos Baptist Ministries and will file a motion for summary judgment to the lower district court in their federal lawsuit against Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. The churches are returning to the district court with the now overwhelming number of decisions from the Supreme Court and other federal courts of appeal striking down discriminatory executive orders against churches and places of worship.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of two donor-supported national organizations that challenged the constitutionality of Californiaâs requirement that charities and nonprofits operating in the state must provide the state attorney generalâs office with the names and addresses of their largest donors.
The High Court ruled that the California donor disclosure requirement is facially invalid because it burdens donorsâ First Amendment rights and is not narrowly tailored to an important government interest.
More than 250 organizations submitted amicus briefs arguing against Californiaâs donor disclosure law
In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (consolidated with Thomas More Law Center v. Bonta), the two nonprofits argued that the rule violates the First Amendment by discouraging their donors from making contributions. The California attorney generalâs office has attempted to require all charities and nonprofits that raise mon
WASHINGTON, D.C. Even though many Americans believe their God-given religious freedom is very important, the Biden administration is quickly trying to eradicate it in this nation.
Created on September 17, 1787, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution begins, âCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof â¦â Now 234 years later, religious freedom hangs in the balance in American culture.
Religious freedom is more than the âfreedom to worshipâ at a synagogue, church, or mosque. It means government cannot force people to go against their core values and beliefs. Religious freedom protects peopleâs right to live, speak, and act according to their beliefs peacefully and publicly.