The Oregonian reports that on Aug. 20, an Oregon federal district court in Horizon Christian School et al v. State of Oregon denied a request for a temporary restraining order to allow three Christian schools to reopen in violation of Gov. Kate Brown's COVID-19 executive order. In what was apparently an opinion delivered orally from the bench, the court said in part:
In my view the religious institutions here in K-through-12 aren’t being treated in any way differently than public K-through-12 institutions...
The harm the state is trying to prevent is death and not just death as in a few, but the possibility of a widespread pandemic killing our most vulnerable citizens...
