{"id":20627,"date":"2020-07-16T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20627"},"modified":"2020-07-16T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:38:16","slug":"california-bans-all-in-home-bible-fellowship-meetings-gatherings-and-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=20627","title":{"rendered":"California Bans All In-home Bible Fellowship Meetings, Gatherings and Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>California Governor Newsom Bans ALL In-Home Bible Fellowship, Church Services, Meetings, Singing, and Church Gatherings<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Brown<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20628\" style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20628\" class=\"wp-image-20628 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-16-at-12.34.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-16-at-12.34.35-PM.png 707w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-16-at-12.34.35-PM-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">san francisco<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As of July 13th, 2020 ALL indoor Church services have been banned in at least 30 counties, even in-home Bible studies, and fellowship. In other counties, fellowship may be limited to 25% capacity or 100 people, whichever is less. Also, singing, chanting, praise, and worship have been banned. However, the exact same order also allows protests.<\/p>\n<p>Under Governor Newsom\u2019s latest directive, residents of California can engage in protests and riots, but cannot house a Bible Study with a friend or neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Counsel will be filing suit against Gov. Newsom on behalf of Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, who is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC). The NHCLC represents 42,000 churches nationwide. Sam is also the senior pastor of churches in Sacramento and Los Angeles. The suit will also include many other churches in California.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fsxX_7vtir0?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On July 13th, 2020 California Governor rolled back the phased reopening as the number of Coronavirus cases rose; Most counties, including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, and Riverside, will be forced to shutter gyms, houses of worship, hair salons, malls and other businesses under the new order, which is effective immediately and remains in effect indefinitely. Also, offices with nonessential workers in those counties must close.<\/p>\n<p>The move further pushes Californians back into their homes during a time when they are typically enjoying summer vacations. The stricter measures to close gyms, churches, and other services affect 29 counties that are among the most populous in the state, where 80% of California residents live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis virus is not going away anytime soon,\u201d Newsom said Monday. \u201cI hope all of us recognize that if we were still connected to some notion that, somehow, when it gets warm, it\u2019s going to go away or, somehow, it\u2019s going to take summer months or weekends off \u2014 this virus has done neither.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing an increase in the spread of the virus, so that\u2019s why it\u2019s incumbent upon all of us to recognize soberly that COVID-19 is not going away any time soon until there is a vaccine or an effective therapy,\u201d Newsom said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To assist the people, when the public officials insist on overriding our constitutional rights, Attorney General Bill Barr had previously mentioned that states which override constitutionally protected rights would be dealt with, saying that the \u201cConstitution isn\u2019t suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr\u2019s memo is, in effect, a warning order to his 94 U.S. attorneys. It tells them to \u201cbe on the lookout for state and local directives that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In that memo, he directed Eric Dreiband, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, and Matthew Schneider, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, \u201cto oversee and coordinate our efforts to monitor state and local policies and, if necessary, take action to correct them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In releasing the memo to the public, Barr reminded all of us that the coronavirus \u201chas required the imposition of extraordinary restrictions on all of our daily lives.\u201d That\u2019s undoubtedly true, as millions of Americans \u201chave been ordered to stay in their homes, leaving only for essential and necessary reasons, while countless businesses and other gathering places have been ordered to close their doors indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\">\n<div class=\"ead-document pdfobject-container\" data-pdf-src=\"https:\/\/brownsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ag_memo_-_balancing_public_safety_with_the_preservation_of_civil_rights_0.pdf\" data-viewer=\"browser\"><embed class=\"pdfobject\" src=\"https:\/\/brownsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ag_memo_-_balancing_public_safety_with_the_preservation_of_civil_rights_0.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/embed><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Attention Attorney General Bill Barr; California stepped over the line; please assist.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brownsjournal.com\/faith\/california-governor-newsom-bans-all-in-home-bible-fellowship-church-services-meetings-singing-and-church-gatherings\/\">https:\/\/brownsjournal.com\/faith\/california-governor-newsom-bans-all-in-home-bible-fellowship-church-services-meetings-singing-and-church-gatherings\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Newsom Bans ALL In-Home Bible Fellowship, Church Services, Meetings, Singing, and Church Gatherings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}