On November 6, 2020, the Honorable Joel R. Wohlfeil of the San Diego Superior Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order enjoining Governor Newsom and San Diego County from enforcing their Covid-19 restrictions against Pacers Showgirls. In issuing the order, the court found that the strip clubs’ entertainment is “constitutionally protected speech.” The court concluded that “the harm to [the strip clubs] if the Application is denied is greater than the harm to [the government] if the Application is granted.”
In contrast, courts in California have refused to enjoin these same Covid-19 restrictions against houses of worship. As a result, in many counties – including San Diego – churches are closed for indoor services while strip clubs remain open indoors. In other words, California courts have currently extended greater constitutional protections to strip clubs than churches.
Thomas More Society special counsel Paul Jonna observed “This is a constitutional travesty that must be immediately rectified. As one California judge aptly noted – you can’t treat a church like a hair salon because churches are entitled to greater protection under the Constitution. And you certainly can’t treat a church like a strip club. In California, churches are being treated worse than strip clubs. The constitutional right to worship God is infinitely more important than any right to entertainment.
The above comes from a Nov. 16 email from the Thomas More Society.
I doubt that there is a strip club in the US that is not Mafia connected, whether directly or by ” franchise fee” permission. This finding probably indicates a judge who wishes to protect his job or his life.
Catholic libs, this is your America, your departure from Church teachings had led to this. You should feel guilty.
May I ask if you live anywhere near San Francisco? If so, contact the chancery to schedule an exorcism; our Archbishop has lots of experience lately. My prayers are not enough for you, the former “Kr…”.
Donas…it is liberals that need to be excised from the Church, they have been a blight on Mother Church for decades
How many exorcisms and consecrations and rosaries does it take for good things to start happening?
Liberal cafeteria Catholics get called out by an orthodox Catholic, claim the faithful Catholic is in need of exorcism. Pardon me as I laugh at your predictablity. What you are feeling Latin moniker faker, is guilt, that’s a good sign. Repent and confess for the sake of your soul.
Dnp, why get so personal? Exorcism for somebody who objects to strip clubs is way weird. What’s your problem?
I am not sure why you are so angry, but I would sincerely like to understand your position. If the current outgoing administration was elected by the will of God, what have they done in the last 4 years that God would will a change?
Both the strip club and the Churches who have sued to prevent COVID restrictions cite the First Amendment. Interesting bedfellows. IMHO, the strip clubs should be shut during our periodic COVID restrictions, and I have a feeling they will lose this on appeal.
YFC cares more about covid damaging bodies than mortal sin destroying souls. Thanks for clarifying.
I wonder if the owners of the strip clubs just fought harder to keep their businesses open than our bishops have fought to keep our churches open.
Thank you CCD for posting this.
St. Thomas More pray us and our families.
I just watched again the various videos on the blue link at the end of this article, the Thomas More Website. After I watched the last one, a video of Jesse Romero, the Ignite 2010 Men’s Conference, popped up, and I watched that one too. I highly recommend them all.
In the words of St. John Paul II and the Holy Bible, “Be not afraid.”
That last line in my post was for all those who are trying to be truly faithful to Catholic teaching, and are being persecuted as a result.
Be not afraid? Um, look around. There’s plenty to be afraid of. The biggest thing to fear is that God is not going to answer his people’s prayers for help
God always answers his people’s prayers, if they are seeking to do His will.
“The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear. The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid.”
What an upside down world (state) we live in! Although I’ve never been to a strip club, I suspect more than speech is going on inside. Yet, somehow, sexually exploitive and perverse behavior is protected “free speech,” but addressing prayer to God, proclaiming the Scriptures and preaching the gospel (all acts of speech) are, at least here in California, not Constitutionally-guaranteed free speech!
“Do not put your trust in princes or in mortal men, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing. The Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them– the LORD, remains faithful forever.” (Psalm 146)
It’s time for our Bishop’s to stand up for what is right! Is it safer to sit in the cold and possibly get neumonia or go back into our Church’s and distance safely? Our poor priest’s have to do this all weekend for masses and it’s ridiculous. We need to get our selves and families back into church now! We’re loosing our freedom and worst yet our faith!
Why isn’t God doing anything to help?
About ten years ago I made a pilgrimage to visit all 21 California missions in four weeks. I prayed the rosary in each chapel that, as the missions were the original instruments of evangelizing California for the Gospel, God would re-evangelize California through a strengthened Church. How naive i was. Those prayers did nothing. California is even worse than it was when I made that pilgrimage.
How many prayers have people made for things to get better, yet they only get worse?
When will God do his part?
On the broadcast of the national Rosary on October 7, Archbishop Gomez said that we are to use social media as the new highway to evangelize. I know, you don’t like him and you are on strike.
Maybe another non-burned out person will read this and help God.
Remember the scene in Sister Act, where the nuns hung out in the doorway of the adult book store?
“Totally Nude”
The women (presumably – in Cali who knows?)
who take all their clothes off still have some small
vestige of inner “privacy, secrecy, maybe even dignity.”
the only place where we ALL, men & women alike,
will be TOTALLY nude, will be before the Just Judge
the Lord, Jesus Christ
Will we be READY for THAT show ???
Bishop Sheen? That you?
I have always known that we, in America, do not deserve more protection than the people in other countries which have fallen under Communism, brutal regimes, etc. when it comes to tyrannical leadership. If we don’t help ourselves who will help us? Do you think God is going to take care of your problems while you sit back and complain?