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B.C. churches won’t rule out appeal on ‘surprising’ ruling upholding in-person service ban
COVID-19: B.C. Supreme Court upholds provincial ban on in-person religious services Paul Jaffe, who represented a group that included the Riverside Calvary Chapel in Langley, Immanuel Covenant Reformed Church in Abbotsford and the Free Reformed Church of Chilliwack, disagrees.“It was a very, very surprising decision,” Jaffe said.Jaffe and his clients maintain that banning religious gatherings but allowing pubs and stores to remain open amounts to religious discrimination.“What was at issue was her distinction between different kinds of gatherings — we said the nature of the gathering ought not to determine whether something is prohibited or not.