Tag: Liberty Counsel
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Cases mount: Religious rights lawsuits vs. COVID-19 restrictions
Seven months into the coronavirus pandemic, religious organizations have been in the forefront of clashes over government-ordered restrictions on large gatherings aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 that they claim violate constitutional rights and discriminate against them. Locally, that has ranged from churches stating they aren’t following public health orders limiting indoor gatherings to…
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Woodland Park ministry drops challenge to Colorado’s pandemic limits on indoor gatherings
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Woodland Park ministry that had challenged the state’s 175-person cap on indoor gatherings as a violation of its constitutional religious rights dropped its federal lawsuit Thursday. Teller County Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment responded by filing…
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Judge denies injunction in lawsuit over religious gathering limits
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Update: A federal judge has denied Andrew Wommack Ministries’ request for an injunction to override the 175-person limit on religious gatherings. Doing so “would present a high risk of harm to the state of Colorado as well as the public in general,” the judge wrote…