From Harvest Rock Church, Inc. et al. v. Gavin Newsom:
Plaintiffs paint a stark picture. They claim that Tier 1 “totally prohibit[s] religious worship services of any kind and any number.” (Motion 3.) This is not true. The First Amendment has not taken a sabbatical. Californians may still worship, attend services, pray, and otherwise exercise their religious freedoms. They just may not do so in ways that significantly increase the likelihood of transmission of a virus which has claimed more than three hundred thousand American lives in less than one year. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. The First Amendment may not be used to make it one.
Slapping the religiously entitled down, one church at a time.
But we can also guess that it’ll be rulings such as this that the far-right will use to prop-up their So sad are we, we’re such victims! propaganda. Sigh.
