California Lifts Indoor Church Limits
Yesterday, California lifted all explicit limits on capacity and location of indoor worship in the state , although the state health department continued to say that indoor gatherings are “strongly discouraged" and advised limiting the numbers to the existing percerntages given under the state's color coded tiers. For most of the state, depending on the county, those limits are currently either 25% or 50% capacity. There is no change to the requirements for social distancing and masks, and choral and congregational singing are also still prohibited. (However, our priests increasingly pat people on the shoulders, and congregational responses are slowly returning. So far, no Karens have intervened.) Most news reports say that this was in response to the US Supreme Court's injunction this past Friday against Santa Clara County enforcing a ban on any indoor home worship. This was argued by the Center for American Liberty in the case of Tandon v Newsom . ...