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Governor Newsom of California as part of his lockdown order, banned indoor worship at churches.

And man, there was all kinds of controversy on that one because the argument, when you go to church, it is a First Amendment freedom of religion issue.

That puts it in a whole different category. As a matter of fact Amendment freedom of religion issue. That puts it in a whole different category.

As a matter of fact, freedom of religion is probably the most potent of the constitutional amendments that exist.

And why is that? Because this country was founded on freedom of religion, not freedom of

expression, not freedom of assembly. It was religion. Pilgrims came over, and because England had a

state religion, they came over and said, we want our own religion. So that's what started all. So as you can

imagine, it's pretty powerful stuff, the argument of freedom of religion. So you have these churches that took it to court. And here's our

argument. People can certainly go to malls. Why can't folks go to church? And the Supreme Court said,

yeah, that's true. Although I think the argument about the malls is pretty strong

on the other side. People don't congregate in malls. They're not together for hours. They're not

singing and chanting and spitting on each other. So it could have gone either way. So here's what the

court said, that for now, California can't ban indoor worship, even where cases are surging.

However, the state can cap indoor services at 25% of a building's capacity.

And the state can still ban singing and chanting, which I don't know how you enforce.

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