Suit was filed last Friday in a Nevada federal district court challenging the constitutionality of Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak's COVID-19 Order that limits in person church services. The complaint (
full text) in
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak, (D NV, filed 5/22/2020) alleges in part:
Instead of prioritizing religious freedom, the Governor has moved “non-essential” secular businesses and activities to the front of the line and pushed churches towards the back. Incredibly, the Governor has allowed restaurants and food establishments to resume in-person, onsite dining at 50% capacity, allowed all retail establishments to open at 50% capacity, and has thrown open the doors of nail care salons, hair salons, and barber shops—businesses that the Governor’s own orders say “promote extended periods of public interaction where the risk of [Covid-19] transmission is high.”...
Yet the Governor insists on maintaining the Church Gathering Ban, refusing to allow churches and places of worship to open their doors to ten or more people under any circumstance.
ADF issued a
press release announcing the filing of the lawsuit.
