Religious leaders praise Supreme Court's decision to block Cuomo's COVID restrictions.
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welcome back to a
welcome back to a
special edition of Hannity,
very big win for religious
liberty. This week after the
Supreme Court ruled against New
York Governor Andrew Cuomo and
his draconian attendance
restrictions on houses of
worship
in a five to four decision which
included newly appointed justice,
Amy Coney Barrett. In the
majority, the court found that
the governors actions trampled
on the first amendment guarantee
of the exercise of religion.
In his concurring opinion,
Justice Gorsuch exposed moral
hypocrisy. Writing. It is time,
past time to make plain that,
while the pandemic poses many
grave challenges, there is no
world on which the Constitution
Toler rates, color, coded
executive, edigits that reopen
liquor stores and bike shops, but
shutter churches, synagogues and
mosques.
Bravo, sir,
but rather than take
responsibility for his
unconstitutional action,
Governor Cuomo lashed out at the
court telling reporters the
Supreme Court made a ruling its
more illustrative of the Supreme
Court than anything else
praised. The rule. Reverend
Franklin Graham thanked the
justices for standing up for
religious liberty. Cardinal Dolan
tweeted. Our churches are
essential.
How did the left act by spewing?
More rage, hate and hysteria at
the five justices and
specifically Justice Barrett,
for example, failed Obama,
adviser Ben Rhodes, call the
decision illegitimate and New
York Times columnist, Paul
Krugman claimed the decision
would get people killed
and other unhinged leftist
expressed their ire by tweeting
out Amy, Covid, Barrett ha ha ha
joining me now for reaction, Fox
NEWS, contributor, Rachel
Campos Duffy, along with Fox NEWS,
analyst Gregg, Jarrett and
relatable podcast host AL. Will
he Beth Stuckey,
certainly the name of your
podcast appropriate because you
are relatable.
Thank you.
I want to start with
you all of the regulars and
norms and not that Rachel and
Gregg arent, but all of US
normals knew this was
unconstitutional.
We knew it was a slap in the
face first amendment.
It was the reason why it was
placed there because they nigh
knew the old world were always
going to clamp down on religious
liberty.
That was the problem.
Is that how you saw this?
Was this decision a surprise to
you?
Yes
and I love reading both Gulch
and Kavanaughs argument in the
concurrent here
and Gulch laid it out so
perfectly
he said. Look we understand if
the state has a compelling
interest. There may be very
narrow restrictions that they
place on gatherings,
but what we saw in the case of
Cuomo is that he was
discriminating against these
religious institutions in a way
he was not discriminated against
secular institutions like bike
shops and other place,
and though that is clearly a
violation of the first amendment
and almost seemed like there was
a malicious intent behind it
and im so glad that Gulch not
only laided out that argument,
but also discounted. The argument
of the dissent on the court,
which included someone who we
used to believe, was a
conservative justice Roberts who
basically didnt want to rule on
this because they said look.
This is not even relevant
anymore.
They decided to move these
institutions out of the zone,
but the fact of the matter is
these institutions need that
protection, because the executive
order is still in place
well that indeed
and Gregg while it was about a
New York situation, fact, is that
the Supreme Court and its
decisions impact the country as
a whole. Can you explain how
that would work in this kind of
an instance?
Clearly they have spoken about
their, how they view these
kinds of separate decisions
against churches, places of
worship versus liquor stores
and bike shops,
so it does move nationally,
doesnt it.
It sets a strong
precedents for future cases.
This was actually a very easy
and obvious case
with Cuomo and Newsom, and other
governors have done is not just
a violation of the first
amendment: freedom of religion,
its also a violation of the
equal protection clause of the
constitution
have to treat people and
businesses equally
great point:
its okay to shop at a
grocery store or liquor store,
but not okay to worship in a
church or a synagogue or a
mosque,
its okay in the Nevada to play
blackjack and craps at a casino.
But it is not okay to worship
your religion,
so Gulch was right.
There is no world in the
constitution in which that is
permissible, and yet these
liberal justices, who you would
think, would be the first people
who would say we have to treat
people equally
exactly
ignore the constitution
completely.
They say this is going to
exacerbate human suffering in
America.
Where is the science for that? If
people in church wear masks and
social distance the same way
they do at offices and factories
at supermarkets and pharmacies
and book stores and hair salons,
then, logically, the risk is
identical,
so it was a silly and obtuse
argument by the liberal
justices
and you also notice
Rachel already. We have some
concern about legitimacy of
government
and one of the reasons Trump was
elected was for law and order
and fairness that everyone would
see the same kind of justice,
and yet you would kind of see you have to think that. Maybe
you have to think that maybe
liquor store owners or casinos
have or MR money, the
politicians dont want to hurt
them
the people in the mosque or the
temple they are not greasing our
palms. So much
is that your kind of sense of
you who this all unfolded in a
very kind of twilight Zone, way
about what was restricted and
what wasnt
yeah
it was interesting.
You saw that things that
liberals like to do seemed to
not be such a big public health
hazard and things that
Republicans and conservatives
like to do like go to church and
open schools. You know that
didnt work
so yeah and also common sense.
I mean I would suggest to you
Tammy that there are probably
more germs and covid
transmission at a strip club
than at church.
No,
there is a lot going on
there.
Cardinal Dolan came out and
congratulated thinks decision.
Ironically, his boss, the Pope,
put an op ed, Nut New York
Times which, which he basically
threw dollan and every other
Catholic. Under the bus who have
been concerned about religious
liberty, been violated,
he wrote an op ed. Protecting
this or standing up for these
rights is selfish.
He mentioned climate change
twice,
never mentioned religious
liberty and basically pair
routed, a bunch of globalist
slogans like build back better
and whatnot.
Amazing,
not everybody in the church
community is on page here
I would say most common sense.
Americans,
people of faith know that a lot
of people miss going to church.
A lot of elderly are not dying
of covid.
Many of them are dying of
loneliness and miss their faith,
communities
good on the Supreme Court and
congratulations
im so thankful to Donald Trump
for putting those
we see. These kind of
decisions are now and how they
have an impact, because clearly
this is key.
We have a lot of work to do,
obviously in the years to come,
because the human condition is
the fragile one
when its good that weve got
this kind of decision.
Considering the kind of year.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-29.