NY Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to respond to our petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review our case Does 1-3 v. Hochul. But now the High Court has ordered Gov. Hochul and the other health care employer defendants to respond.

Because the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered Hochul and the health care employers to respond, this is a good sign that the High Court will review our case in its super conference this fall. Gov. Hochul will no longer be able to avoid admitting to the Court how she violated clear federal law by openly discriminating against Christians.

Fund the fight to STOP NY’s brazen anti-Christian discrimination and have your gift DOUBLED in impact by a special Challenge Grant.

Gov. Hochul’s COVID-19 shot mandate required ALL New York health care employers to force their employees to get the experimental jab. Hochul allowed shot exemptions for medical reasons, but she ordered employers to not even consider ANY requests for religious accommodation.

Any employee who requested their federal Title VII religious freedom rights was ordered to be fired. Any employer that honored an employee’s religious freedom rights would face daily fines AND lose their business and professional license, putting them immediately, and automatically, out of business, with no recourse — until Liberty Counsel stepped in.

+ + Comply or shut down. . .

John* runs a small, 15-bed faith-based senior living center in New York. For 50 years, the center’s employees have lived out their faith by serving elderly patients in their twilight years. Faith is the entire reason both patients and employees chose to live or work in John’s facility.

But NY Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded John and his employees violate their faith or risk losing their jobs and medical licenses. Now, despite mountains of legal cases determining that no governor or politician can rob their citizens of religious freedom rights, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul refuses to obey clear federal law or the courts. She continues to irrationally insist she has more power than the Constitution and the federal government combined!

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits any state or government employer — including the state of New York — from violating citizens’ religious freedom rights. But Hochul apparently believes she is above the law — as even her refusal to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court illustrates.

But the law and subsequent appeals court rulings are on our side.

Help us defeat NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s anti-Christian tyranny once and for all!

The U.S. Constitution and federal law are crystal clear: States can give citizens more rights than federal law offers, but those states cannot take away any rights the Constitution or the federal law provide.

The Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal have all ruled that state laws must yield to federal laws regarding discrimination requirements. But Gov. Hochul doesn’t care. Not only does she continue to insist she had the right to rob New Yorkers of their religious freedom, but she also ordered employers to violate federal Title VII laws.

In other words, Hochul robbed people of their religious freedom protected under federal law, and she will do it again if the High Court does not stop her. Gov. Janet Mills in Maine mirrored Hochel’s unlawful dictate.

We cannot allow Hochul’s rogue lawlessness to continue.

If Hochul’s lawlessness is not reined in, radical blue states will use the opportunity to return to the extreme anti-Christian biases and punishments we witnessed with horror during COVID — pastors jailed, churchgoers put on house arrest, attempts to seize and destroy churches, even as they force once-free Americans to get dangerous, untested, abortion-linked experimental shots.

We must not return to the days of COVID tyranny. We need your help to see this case through to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thankfully, a generous supporter has established a Challenge Grant to benefit our legal fund.

Every donation made today, including recurring donations, will be DOUBLED in impact by the Challenge Grant. Please give generously so that religious freedom does not die on Kathy Hochul’s doorstep.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

 
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