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Opening Insights: Protect Freedom<\/h2>\n

I was not born to be forced. <\/em>
I will breathe after my own fashion. <\/em>
Let us see who is the strongest.<\/em>
HENRY DAVID THOREAU<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the perfect platform for all who wish to quash freedom and stomp on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n

California's left-tilted government has leveraged the COVID-19 pandemic to exert totalitarian control over its citizens. Government representatives have recently set their sights on religious freedom and the right to worship. Thankfully the Supreme Court performed its intended function and protected Californians from the grotesque abuse of power by government.<\/p>\n

The following article was published by The Epoch Times, \"the fastest-growing independent news media in America.\" It was written Zachary Stieber<\/a>, reporter for The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

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Informational Insights: California's Overreach<\/h2>\n
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The\u00a0Supreme Court<\/a>\u00a0late Friday ruled against\u00a0California<\/a>, blocking the restrictions ban on in-home Bible studies and other religious gatherings.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s narrow 5\u20134\u00a0ruling<\/a>\u00a0was in favor of a group of Santa Clara residents who asserted the restrictions violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cApplicants are likely to succeed on the merits of their free exercise claim; they are irreparably harmed by the loss of free exercise rights \u2018for even minimal periods of time\u2019; the State has not shown that \u2018public health would be imperiled\u2019 by employing less restrictive measures,\u201d an unsigned opinion of the court\u2019s majority said in its opinion.<\/p>\n

The ruling is the fifth time the nation\u2019s highest court has overruled the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on California COVID-19 fueled restrictions, including\u00a0a February ruling<\/a>\u00a0that saw the court grant a worshipper\u2019s application asking for restrictions on in-person religious services be rolled back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unsurprising that such litigants are entitled to relief. California\u2019s Blueprint System contains myriad exceptions and accommodations for comparable activities, thus requiring the application of strict scrutiny,\u201d the majority wrote on Friday.<\/p>\n

The blueprint system is the statewide criteria for loosening or tightening restrictions based on the level of CCP virus spread.<\/p>\n

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett made up the majority.<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John Roberts, another Republican-nominated justice, joined the court\u2019s liberal wing in dissenting, though he did not sign on to the dissenting opinion authored by Justice Elena Kagan.<\/p>\n

Kagan said she would have rejected the application for relief because she felt the state complied with the First Amendment in its limiting religious gatherings in homes to three households since the state had the same restrictions on secular gatherings in homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has adopted a blanket restriction on at-home gatherings of all kinds, religious and secular alike. California need not, as the\u00a0per curiam<\/em>\u00a0insists, treat at-home religious gatherings the same as hardware stores and hair salons\u2014and thus unlike at-home secular gatherings, the obvious comparator here,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The original order in the case denying the application for relief came from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who said that in light of \u201cthe unique risks of gatherings in spreading COVID-19; the deaths and serious illnesses that result from COVID-19; and the overwhelming strain on the healthcare system,\u201d enjoining the state and county restrictions on in-home religious gatherings \u201cwould not be in the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ninth Circuit\u2019s panel upheld Koh\u2019s ruling, writing last month that \u201cappellants had not satisfied the requirements for the extraordinary remedy of an injunction pending appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecifically, the panel held that appellants had not demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits for their free exercise, due process, or equal protection claims, nor had they demonstrated that injunctive relief was necessary for their free speech claims,\u201d the panel wrote.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the plaintiffs and defense did not immediately respond to requests for comment. California had argued in a brief on Thursday that its policy regarding in-home gatherings applied to all gatherings, no matter their purpose, while also offering the Supreme Court did not need to intervene because the state will relax restrictions later this month.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/supreme-court-blocks-californias-restrictions-on-in-home-religious-gatherings_3770180.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article was published on April 10, 2021 by THE EPOCH TIMES: <\/em>Supreme Court Blocks California\u2019s Restrictions on In-home Religious Gatherings<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Possibilities for Consideration: A Power Too Great<\/h2>\n

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The following models illustrate the psychology of fear <\/strong>and control<\/strong>
being used to force America to its knees.<\/p>\n

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Once people are conditioned emotionally to accept fear as a foundation perception, they become willing candidates to accept the principles of control. Thus, they become slaves to the authority, that being government, propaganda or social media influence.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Whatever we do, however we do it, this becomes the basis for how we will build relationships at home, work, worship and play. These models will permeate all dimensions of our lives and must be reversed if our communities and our country are to survive.<\/p>\n

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