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Some California churches reopened their doors for services Sunday after the Supreme Court ruled last week that the state’s orders prohibiting indoor services during the pandemic appeared to violate the Constitution’s protection of the free exercise of religion. “This is not just our 1st Amendment rights, it’s really our biblical mandate not to forsake assembling with the saints,” Ché Ahn, senior pastor of Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, told congregants during Sunday services. The state’s ban on indoor services was challenged in separate lawsuits by Harvest Rock Church and the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, and Friday’s order applied directly to them. But its legal logic would block enforcement of a similar ban at other churches. ....
Feb. 6, 2021 Catholic News Agency California’s strict coronavirus rules banning indoor worship were blocked and revised by a U.S. Supreme Court injunction Feb. 5. “This is a very significant step forward for basic rights, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said. This decision makes clear we can now return to worshiping safely indoors without risk of harassment from government officials. “As Christians we are members of a Church, which literally means an assembly of people coming together to worship God,” Archbishop Cordileone continued. “This is our identity; it is in our very nature to gather in person to give honor and glory to God. And especially as Catholics we know that our worship cannot be livestreamed: there is no way to give Communion, or any of the other sacraments via the internet.” ....
February 8, 2021 In a Friday night 6-3 injunction responding to emergency petitions from two California churches, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion that California’s restrictions against worship services have gone too far. The court gave a short, unsigned opinion demanding California lift its restrictions on in-person, indoor church services while allowing California to keep banning singing and limiting attendance to 25 percent of church buildings’ capacity. The decision allows churches to present evidence in lower courts that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lockdown rules violate the First Amendment and other antidiscrimination measures by limiting their operations in ways that other institutions are not, such as the ability to meet indoors. The court’s injunction applied to two cases, ....
Print this article As we near the one-year mark since the United States began balancing COVID-19 protocol and civil liberties, the debate over how to achieve them both is ongoing, as are the lawsuits. Late Friday night, the Supreme Court partially granted an application for injunctive relief in two cases, South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom and Harvest Rock Church v. Newsom. Now California Gov. Gavin Newsom must end the state s total ban on indoor worship and let religious spaces reopen at 25% of occupancy, though the state can continue to ban singing and chanting indoors. The Supreme Court was splintered in its decision, and, for the first time, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote separately from the rest of the court. ....