URGENT Prayer Request Re SCOTUS

Sep 26, 2025

Supreme Court to Consider TWO Liberty Counsel Cases
In both cases, state governors punished people for their Christian faith by terminating them from their jobs or forbidding them to worship.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hold its “Super Conference” when the Justices meet to consider which of the cases the Court will hear this term.

TWO of Liberty Counsel’s cases, Maryville Baptist Church v. KY Gov. Beshear and Does v. NY Gov. Hochul, are up for consideration.

Each of these cases seeks to stop Democratic governors from dictating godless doctrine to religious people. We need the votes of four Justices for the Court to take up these cases so we can end state government discrimination against Christians and their religious freedom.

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In Maryville Baptist Church v. Gov. Beshear, the KY governor had every attendee of Maryville Baptist Church’s outdoor, stay-in-your-own-car parking lot Easter Sunday service put on the equivalent of house arrest for two weeks.

Under Beshear’s COVID orders, these same people could have gathered in their cars at any abortion clinic, big box, or liquor store parking lot. But because they gathered in a CHURCH parking lot —on the holiest day of the Christian year — these Christians were confined to their homes for two weeks and some lost their “essential” jobs.

In Does v. Gov. Hochul, the NY governor refused to obey clear federal law to harass Christians and people of faith. The federal Title VII employment law clearly states that an employer must provide reasonable accommodation to an employee’s religious beliefs unless doing so would present an undue hardship. Gov. Hochul DID grant medical exemptions. But any religious exemption seeker was fired, and any employer that granted accommodation to even one employee would face daily fines and lose their business license. In other words, any and all requests for accommodation must be denied.

One of our clients in this case is a remote employee who worked from home and had an authorized religious exemption from vaccines, including the COVID shot, for 10 years. But, thanks to Hochul’s orders, his exemption was revoked, and he lost his job for refusing the COVID shot.

The governors of Kentucky and New York engaged in antichrist-like actions against churches and religious employees.

Five years after the COVID panic is over, both governors REFUSE to agree to comply with federal law and constitutional religious freedom rights.

Federal law and the U.S. Constitution are crystal clear —the government may not dictate religious doctrine, nor can it punish a religious individual for refusing to follow a government agent’s illegal religious-discrimination actions. But Govs. Beshear and Hochul refuse to agree to these very clear laws and mandates.

Liberty Counsel also has another blockbuster case pending that the High Court will consider in another conference to be held over the next two weeks. The case is Davis v. Ermold, involving former KY clerk Kim Davis. This is a major religious liberty case and one that is asking the High Court to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges “marriage” opinion.

If the High Court does not act, any government official will be allowed to further abuse Christians in the future, and we cannot allow the rampant abuses we witnessed during COVID to EVER happen again. But we can only achieve that goal with your prayers and your direct financial support. Please, give generously today and a special Challenge Grant will DOUBLE the impact of your donation.

Finally, please pray the Justices take up these cases and issue rulings bolstering religious freedom, setting legal precedent that lasts for generations.

Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

 

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