Religious leaders and Constitutional Attorneys are coming to the capitol tomorrow to show their support for the Religion is Essential Act, a bill to codify into law decisions the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly made to protect religious practice in California. The last of five court rulings was handed down…
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SACRAMENTO – A Bay Area assemblyman wants to ban from service police officers and police officer candidates who are members of hate groups or have used hate speech in the past, even in “a private discussion forum” online. Yet the definition of a “hate group” and “hate speech” used by…
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If California politicians can trust shoppers to social distance while packed into big box stores, then churches should be trusted to do the same. That’s what Senator Brian Jones (R-Escondido) argued as he introduced the Religion is Essential Act (SB 397) yesterday, a bill to require the state and local…
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Last Friday, the US Supreme Court handed churches and synagogues in New York a stunning victory over their governor’s discriminatory COVID-19 restrictions on indoor services. The 5-4 majority declared “even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.” Despite the victory, it was unclear how the New…
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This afternoon Governor Newsom decided to change his own COVID-19 rules and put 94% of California’s population under his most harsh virus restrictions starting tomorrow. This means restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, and churches can no longer meet indoors. As a result of the emergency orders, 41 of California’s 58 counties…
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Ignoring the privacy and safety rights of female inmates, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 132 several weeks ago, a bill to allow inmates to decide where to be housed based not on their biological sex, but on their gender identity. The bill author, Senator Scott Wiener (D) San Francisco, said…
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Several California based Christian legal organizations say Governor Newsom’s new ban on church singing isn’t enforceable. The new “guideline” document released July 1, says social distancing isn’t going to protect congregants from COVID-19 in church services if they still sing or chant. “Places of worship must therefore, discontinue singing and…
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Last Monday, California’s Attorney General Xavier Becerra added Idaho to a list of 11 other “LGBT discriminator” states where state-employee travel is banned. Idaho’s transgressions involved the recent passage of two laws that determine sex using biology, not gender identity. Becerra’s actions against Idaho are required by AB 1887, a…
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Since the murder of George Floyd, there have been hundreds of demonstrations across all fifty states peacefully demanding justice for Floyd and others like him. Yet, there have also been those who used their justified outrage as an excuse to loot, destroy neighborhoods, and kill innocent law enforcement officers. In…
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For weeks churches, Republican legislators, President Trump, the US Department of Justice, and religious liberty law firms, confronted Governor Newsom over his bans on in-person church services calling them discriminatory and unconstitutional. Last Monday, a week after Trump demanded governors let churches meet, and a week before 1200 California churches…
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