Los Angeles Forbids Church from Holding Public Worship Service 

Five years ago, our chairman, Mat Staver, sued the City of Los Angeles for banning public worship services. He won that case. But the so-called “City of Angels” is up to its old tricks.

In May, city officials forbade a church from holding a public worship service in order to appease the LGBTQ crowd. But that is a BIG mistake.

The City of Los Angeles may not pick and choose which groups are allowed First Amendment rights of free expression or religious freedom. People of faith cannot be silenced for peaceful public expression of Christian viewpoints.

Our chairman beat Los Angeles and California five years ago, and he intends to defeat them again.

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Earlier this year, Harvest Rock Church was excited to hold a “Mayday” public worship event in Los Angeles. The event was one of several scheduled coast to coast that were modeled after Peru’s #DontMessWithMyKids pro-life, pro-family, pro-God outdoor worship services.

Harvest Rock and the Mayday LA organizers dutifully applied for a permit to hold their event on the much revered Hollywood Boulevard where literally thousands of public events have been held over the years.

However, city officials REFUSED to grant Mayday LA the permit. Instead, they told these clients that they could not hold their public worship service because there would be no room on Hollywood Boulevard for fire trucks and emergency vehicles.

But the very next week, the city DID allow the LGBTQ “Pride Parade” to throw a massive demonstration with far more attendees on the exact same Hollywood Boulevard where Harvest and Mayday LA had been denied.

Furthermore, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass not only allowed antifa anti-ICE protests on the same street, but she also encouraged everyone to join in the melee. She even defended those protests when they turned violent. But Christians seeking to pray and worship on a different date were banned!

We cannot stand idly by while “woke” officials ban public worship!

Faith & Liberty stands on the same biblical worldview as Harvest Rock and Mayday USA. Support us as we stand for freedom of religion in our nation’s capital and from coast to coast across this great land.

The City of Los Angeles also told Mayday LA organizers that their permit application was denied because the City could not permit anything related to “freedom of speech” or “protests” — a ridiculous statement considering the city permitted “pride” events and violent antifa protests.

In a previous case that our chairman argued, the High Court ruled 9-0 that government entities may not discriminate against religious viewpoints.

By denying Mayday’s permit because of its “religious viewpoint” while allowing LA Pride to speak on Hollywood Boulevard about similar topics from a different viewpoint, the Los Angeles permitting scheme treated nonreligious viewpoints more favorably than religious ones — a clearly discriminatory and unconstitutional censoring of religious expression.

The radical LGBTQ-supporting left keeps trying to silence opposing viewpoints. Faith & Liberty has fought this issue many times and intends to stand up against this attack on religious expression.

Faith & Liberty stands with Liberty Counsel in its defense of Harvest Rock Church and Mayday LA. If we do not challenge this latest act of tyranny against the church, the bullies will grow bolder, and more attacks will come against our religious liberty.

Thank you for standing with the Faith & Liberty team called to a vital and unique mission in our nation’s capital.

Your missionaries on Capitol Hill,

Peggy Nienaber, Senior Vice President
Mat Staver, Chairman
Rev. Gregory Cox, Senior Pastor

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ONE MORE THING! LGBTQ adherents in Congress are trying to pass a bill that would BAN churches from speaking out against LGBTQ attempts to “trans” children. Fax Congress NOW and demand they VOTE NO on HR 15 and S 1503, the misnamed “Equality Act”!