Ohio bill calls for Canada to be put on religious-freedom watchlist over COVID restrictions

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Ohio bill calls for Canada to be put on religious-freedom watchlist over COVID restrictions
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Meanwhile, courts in Canada have ruled that the restrictions, also applied for public health reasons to restaurants, bars, movie theatres and other places where people gather in numbers, did not contravene the religious freedom guarantee in the Charter of Rights.Article content

It cited the arrest of Coates, who was put behind bars for 35 days after repeatedly ignoring orders from public-health agencies to follow lockdown rules that required parishioners at his GraceLife church and others to wear masks and limit attendance. Although churches and other places of worship in Ohio did at times voluntarily impose restrictions to help combat COVID-19, the state never forced such measures on them.

While most of the document dealt with pandemic restrictions, it also cited the federal government’s new lof gay or transgender people. It alleged the legislation includes “a prison sentence of up to five years for merely expressing a biblical view of marriage.”

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