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Limiting Church Attendance Because of COVID-19 Being Reconsidered in California

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“In 18 counties in California, indoor worship services are completely prohibited. Yet the state still allows people to go indoors to spend a day shopping in the mall, have their hair styled, get a manicure or pedicure, produce a television show or a movie, participate in professional sports, wash their clothes at a laundromat, and even work in a meatpacking plant.”

Pointing to mandates that have either closed churches or severely impacted attendance, Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit objected to worship services being restricted while other pursuits and activities received a pass.

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“The expansion of shelter-in-place, or as we call it forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights, is in my opinion breaking peoples’ freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong. If somebody wants to stay in the house, that’s great. But to say that they cannot leave the house and they will be arrested if they do — this is fascist.”

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