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1. NS JOURNAL: Gov. Roy Cooper
announces new executive order imposing stricter face covering
requirement
"Gov. Roy Cooper announced a new executive order which
would enact a stricter face covering requirement.
'Our
statewide mask requirement has been in effect since June and it is
still our best weapon in this fight. Today’s executive order will
further tighten that mandate, making it clear that everyone needs to
wear a mask whenever you are with someone you don’t live with,' said
Cooper at Monday’s media availability from the Emergency Operations
Center in Raleigh.
Executive Order 180 goes into effect on
Wednesday, Nov. 25, and runs through Friday, Dec. 11."
"The new
mask order grants state and local law enforcement the authority to
cite and fine individuals not wearing a mask in the settings specified
by the order. It also permits law enforcement to 'cite a business or
organization that failed to enforce the requirement to wear Face
Coverings.'
The section on enforcement goes even further,
dictating that police have to be called and the person refusing to
wear a mask or if that person refuses to leave. That business can be
cited and the person can be charged with trespassing “any other laws
that the worker or Guest may violate.'"
2. DALLAS NEWS: Texas, Louisiana
can end Planned Parenthood funding, federal appeals court
rules
"The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New
Orleans reverses an earlier ruling by a three-judge appellate panel
that blocked Texas from enforcing its ban on Medicaid funding of
Planned Parenthood."
3. NRTL NEWS: 6th Circuit
upholds Tennessee law banning abortions performed because the baby is
diagnosed with Down syndrome
“On Friday the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave
the state of Tennessee a big victory when a three-judge panel ruled
the state could begin enforcing a ban on abortion, except to save the
mother’s life, when the abortionist knows that the woman is seeking
the abortion because of the child’s sex or race or if he knows the
woman is seeking an abortion because of a diagnosis of Down
syndrome.”
4. WSJ: Supreme Court Blocks
COVID-19 Restrictions on Religious Services in New York
“A divided Supreme Court blocked New York from imposing
strict limits on attendance at religious services to combat Covid-19,
with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett casting the pivotal vote to depart
from past cases that deferred to state authorities on public-health
measures.”
5. N&O: A ban on cities
passing LGBT protections is about to expire. NC activists look
ahead
“North Carolina could face another HB2-style showdown in
the coming weeks, after a ban on cities enacting non-discrimination
rules for local businesses expires Dec. 1.
But with city
officials publicly silent so far, it remains to be
seen where in the state — or even if — new changes might
start.
Transgender and gay rights activists have already been
pushing cities to start enacting new protections. Kendra Johnson,
executive director of the Raleigh-based LGBT advocacy group Equality
NC, said a big focus will be housing. She said landlords shouldn’t be
able to deny people housing due to their sexuality or gender
identity.”
 WEEKLY PRAYER: OFFICIALS
LORD, you also have instructed us to pray for our governing
officials, and we come to you in the spirit of this petition. We pray
for our national government and its executive, legislative, and
judicial servants. May they indeed be servants unto the people, and
govern in a manner that protects liberty and virtue. In the same
spirit, we pray for public servants across our state and local
governments. May they all heed your mandate in Romans 13:4 to be in
positions of authority as "God's servant" and for the "good" of the
public. They govern in what we confess are difficult times. Between
the COVID-19 pandemic, the civic unrest, the hostile political
climate, and the opposition of international opponents such as China,
they are much in need of your incalculable wisdom. May they plead with
you to give it to them, and may your grace respond in
kind.
Protect we, the People, from this virus, and help quicken
our social, physical, emotional, and economic recovery.
Amen
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Sincerely,
North Carolina Values Coalition
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