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Offline PeteS in CA

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Churches Wrestle $2M From Gavin Newsom Over COVID Lockdowns

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/02/churches-wrestle-2m-from-gavin-newsom-over-covid-lockdowns-n1451576

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The State of California has agreed to pay more than $2 million to a San Diego church and a Catholic priest who challenged Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, which violated the Christian leaders’ religious freedom. In two separate settlements, the state agreed to pay $1.6 million to South Bay United Pentecostal Church and $550,000 to Catholic Priest Father Trevor Burfitt. Judges also granted permanent injunctions to protect their religious freedom rights.

“The South Bay case represents an unprecedented three trips to the United States Supreme Court in a one-year period, which resulted in a landmark decision that opened up the churches in California for 40 million people,” Charles LiMandri, a special counsel at the Thomas More Society who represented South Bay, said in a statement on the settlement. “The permanent injunctions in these cases uphold and protect one of the most cherished principles of our republic: The Free Exercise of Religion.”

“Restrictions on churches cannot be more severe than restrictions on retail. We are pleased with the final results in these two important cases,” Paul Jonna, another South Bay lawyer, added.

These cases, while very significant, are the vanguard. More cases, from LA and Orange Counties, from Santa Clara County, and probably from all over the state will hit those counties and the state. Millions of taxpayer dollars will be spent to pay for government bias against churches, many of which would gladly have worked with government for a more realistic and greater public good. IOW, stupid bigotry will be costly to misrepresented taxpayers.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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Re: Churches Wrestle $2M From Gavin Newsom Over COVID Lockdowns
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2021, 12:15:42 am »
I wish that in the case of unconstitutional edicts handed down by goobernor Noisome the penalties had to be paid by him personally instead of the taxpayers. Penalties don't do anything to keep him and other fascist politicians from repeating unconstitutional acts when there is nothing but what amounts to a verbal rebuke as penalty.