Pastor Ché Ahn speaks at Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California, 2019. | Facebook/Harvest Rock Church
California will have to pay over $1 million in legal fees and attorney costs as part of a settlement reached with Harvest Rock Church over litigation surrounding the stateâs lockdown rules.
Last year, Harvest Rock and other ministries sued Gov. Gavin Newsom over a coronavirus pandemic lockdown order limiting the size and scope of worship gatherings they argued violated their religious freedom.
U.S. District Court Judge Jesus G. Bernal issued an order last week requiring the state to pay the plaintiffs $1.35 million in attorneyâs fees and legal costs incurred in the case.
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Packing the Supreme Court: An Attempt to Stamp Out Religious Liberty?
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If Democrats succeed in packing the U.S. Supreme Court with progressives, as is their wont, what freedoms now protected by a conservative majority will they first try to cancel?
Gun ownership? “Deplorable” voices on social media? Citizen United’s free speech protections? So much to undo, so little time to do it, before losing control of government.
Here’s our guess: Religious liberty. The first right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Why?
Because the court has issued a string of unambiguous decisions that guarantee religious liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’re so clear and forceful that they deeply get under progressives’ skin. So upset was the notoriously liberal San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that it amazingly five times dared to defy the high court’s clear directives that the COVID-19 pandemic is not reason enough to tell the faithful how to worship. O