Last week, Crenshaw High School’s football season abruptly ended as a Los Angeles Unified School District mandate went into effect. The mandate requires that all students wanting to play sports must receive the COVID-19 vaccination. The Crenshaw High School football team, five-time city champions, only had 13 of its players…
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Parents are returning to the state capitol with their kids on November 15th to protest vaccine mandates being imposed on private and public K-12 students by Governor Gavin Newsom and local school officials. The rally is sponsored by Our Children, Our Choice CA, a grassroots organization started by two stay-at-home…
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The California School Boards Association (CSBA) sent a letter to Governor Newsom requesting state assistance for school board meetings citing the alleged “onslaught” of parents who “lash out” at school board meetings. “We are increasingly witnessing active attempts to undermine the democratic process through intimidation, threats, and violence,” writes Vernon…
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At least three Christian churches in California were handed legal wins this week in their battle for religious freedom. Grace Community Church (led by Rev. John MacArthur) in Sun Valley won a settlement after local officials sued the church for worshipping in-person during the COVID-19 shutdown. The Los Angeles County…
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Just when you thought California’s legislature couldn’t get any worse, lawmakers seem poised to create near-universal vaccine mandates for Californians. Using a controversial process known as “gut-and-amend,” the Assembly was preparing to transform at least two bills in their final stages into Frankenstein laws forcing nearly ALL California employers to…
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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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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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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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