OK, fine with me, , , , Those "religious" nuts can crowd right in to their "houses of worship" and catch all the COVID they can. Then, when they become deathly ill, they should just stay at home and die miserable deaths, just as long as they Do Not go to the hospital and over-burden our healthcare system.

Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court sides with challenge to California's COVID-19 religious service curbs

Thu, December 3, 2020, 10:54 AM EST
By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a blow to California Governor Gavin Newsom's pandemic-related ban on indoor religious services, siding with a church that defied the policy and challenged it as unconstitutional religious discrimination.

The decision followed a similar action by the justices on Nov. 25 that backed Christian and Jewish houses of worship that challenged New York state restrictions in coronavirus hot spots.

The justices, with no noted dissents, set aside a lower court ruling that rejected a challenge to Newsom's policy by Harvest Rock Church Inc, which has several campuses in the state, and Harvest International Ministries Inc, an association of churches. Both are based in Pasadena, a city in Los Angeles County.

The justices directed the lower court to reconsider the case in light of their ruling in the New York case.

California's pandemic-related restrictions have evolved throughout the year. Newsom, a Democrat, initially ordered houses of worship to be closed completely in March as part of a broad stay-at-home directive. Some restrictions were lifted in the spring, but new curbs were introduced in July after a surge in cases, which was when Harvest Rock Church first sued.

The state's current plan imposed county-specific limits based on the number of COVID-19 cases. Under the policy, houses of worship in the worst-hit areas could not hold indoor gatherings but could do so outdoors. In other counties, houses of worship could have indoor events with capacity restrictions.

The state imposed similar restrictions on what it called comparable businesses and activities such as museums, movie theaters and restaurants that also draw crowds of people.

In the New York case, the justices said the New York restrictions "single out houses of worship for especially harsh treatment" in part by allowing various businesses to operate indoors without the same occupancy restrictions.

(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley in Washington; Additional reporting by Andrew Chung in New York; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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Dora Hates You

Yeah some folks don't know to come in from the rain

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

Its one thing to talk about the after life. Its a whole damn other to hasten it.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Selective culling.

The Cleanse must continue

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When America was "great"

Let's see what the personal liability is for pastors priests rabbis and reverends who know or should know that exercising your right to free assembly will foreseeably cause deaths. Will the flock be asked to dig a little deeper for the collection plate for all of the inevitable lawsuits that will need to be defended and settled. Tpap must be torn here.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

What diiference does it make? Aren't we all long dead anyway? Now some people might look at the very provable fact that we are still very much alive after 9 months of this (10 mililion more Trump voters, right?) and conlude that they have been idiots for flushing 9 months of their lives down the toilet. But the NSR progs are a particulary stubborn breed of fool. Do fools really have lives? Who knows?

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I :heart; Q

There's that mornin 'meltdown!

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When America was "great"

We are all going to die. Jumping into a meat grinder is not proof of that fact nor is it necessary. But if you feel the need to prove that point by dying, I will credit you with proving that point. You can have it on your tombstone. I died needlessly proving a stupid point that was nothing more than generalized truism so I could avoid having to wrong about people dying from Covid. See ya soon republicans!

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

We know how important assembly is to those so religiously inclined.
We know how extremely, even violently some can react when they perceive that right being threatened.
Those of those that don't get why, still just need to just let it go.
It's seldom worth fighting with others who care so much more about something.

We can find other ways to mitigate the threat these assemblies pose to non participants.


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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Edited: 12/04/2020 at 01:27 PM by WG

Quarantine them to their churches.

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Dora Hates You

Wait til the faithful hear Melania's war on Christmas. She will never recover, like she did when she posed naked, or wore a jacket saying "I don't really care, do you?" to an immigration detention center.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.