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The Court Deals a Blow to a Pentecostal Church Just before Pentecost Sunday

By Carrie Severino | June 1, 2020

From the beginning of California’s COVID-19 shutdown in March, religious institutions were excluded from the state’s definition of “essential businesses,” including the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif. The church spent most of May in court fighting Governor Gavin Newsom’s imposition of more stringent restrictions on religious gatherings than comparably risky secular activities.

As California shifted to a four-stage reopening plan, its discrimination against houses of worship grew as their reopening was pushed to “Stage 3,” behind manufacturing, warehousing, offices, schools, and shopping malls.  Californians were allowed to gather by the thousands ten hours a day, seven days a week, to visit America’s high altar to consumerism, but could not gather for an hour a week to worship God …

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Filed Under: In The News, JCN Bench Memo Tagged With: Carrie, Carrie Severino, Constitution, JCN, Judges, Judicial Crisis Network

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