Church Ordered To Pay Over $1M For Violating COVID Rules

The Free Press-Tampa ^ | Liam Edgar

[Conservativetpa]

A California state judge on Thursday ordered Calvary Chapel Church, San Jose, in Santa Clara County to pay $1.2 million in fines for violating COVID-19 restrictions on masking, social distancing, and gatherings.

And one reason the county knew the church ran afoul of those rules was that its employees tracked the congregation by their phones.

[ALPAPilot]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;

QED

Unfortunately, progressives can neither read nor reason.

[Responsibility2nd]

I saw the headline and thought “oh this must be Canada again.”

Nope someplace just as bad. California.

[theyreallthesame]

Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs was ordered to pay $1,000,000.00 after banking $5,000,000,000.00 in illicit gains and insider trading.

[MeganC]

There’s a reason why the Bible says it is a curse to be ruled by judges.

[DesertRhino]

Don’t give the Sodomites the cash. Hand it out to the poor or hide it, whatever. Then continue with services, and make the Sodomites come arrest you. Have hundreds there. They count on fear based compliance. They will do it, but they despise what they call “bad optics”.

[Fiji Hill]

“It should appear clear to all — regardless of religious affiliation — that wearing a mask while worshiping one’s god (sic) and communing with other congregants is a simple, unobtrusive, giving way to protect others while still exercising your right to religious freedom,” Pennypacker wrote in her ruling, according to CBS News.

It should be clear by now that masks provide zero protection against the virus.

[No name given]

Something tells me they would never try this with a mosque.

[No name given]

And this is that reason!

[davidb56]

Don’t pay. find the Judge’s address and protest 24/7. make his Elitist life miserable.

[matt04]

“It should appear clear to all — regardless of religious affiliation — that wearing a mask while worshiping one’s god (sic) and communing with other congregants is a simple, unobtrusive, giving way to protect others while still exercising your right to religious freedom,” Pennypacker wrote in her ruling, according to CBS News.

As I've said, masks are/were a religion to them.

[nevermorelenore]

“rules” aren’t laws

[Paladin2]

Lock the Judge up as a Domestic Terrorist [and Traitor].

[SuperLuminal]

”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...

No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

[Trump_Triumphant]

Pure anti-Christian bullying from the feds.

[Gay State Conservative]

During the Wuhan Flu panic a Federal judge ruled that the Massachusetts Governor's order that all gun ranges must close was a violation of 2nd Amendment rights and ordered them reopened. I'll wager that the Federal courts would rule the same here...a violation of 1st Amendment rights.

[Gay State Conservative]

State judge...not Federal.

[eyedigress]

Government of California attacks the Freedom to Worship the Lord.

I do not want to be on the California side.

[Bookshelf]

Evette Pennypacker, the judge, is a known Democrat.
Judge = failed lawyer.

[Nextrush]

When will the politicians of both parties who locked down their states be fined for what they did to us.

Why is Republican Kay Ivey who spoke of “regular folks” as opposed to “unvaccinated folks” still the Governor of Alabama?

Why? Why? Why?