FAITH
Friday, March 31, 2017
East Oregonian
Trump appeals new ruling blocking travel ban
Administration argues
order is for national
security; judge says it
looks like ‘Muslim ban’
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Associated Press
HONOLULU — President
Donald Trump’s administration on
Thursday appealed the latest court
ruling against his revised travel ban
to the same court that refused to
reinstate the original version.
A day earlier, U.S. District
Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii
handed the government its latest
defeat by issuing a longer-lasting
hold on Trump’s executive order.
Watson’s decision came after
the Department of Justice argued
for a narrower ruling covering only
the ban on new visas for people
from six Muslim-majority coun-
tries. The department urged the
judge to allow a freeze on the U.S.
refugee program to go forward.
Government attorney Chad
Readler said halting the flow of
refugees had no effect on Hawaii
and the state has not shown how
it is harmed by the ban. Watson
disagreed.
The administration says the
executive order falls within the
president’s power to protect
George Lee/The Star-Advertiser via AP, File
This Dec. 2015 file photo shows
U.S. District Judge Derrick Wat-
son in Honolulu.
national security and will
ultimately succeed, while Hawaii
Attorney General Douglas Chin
likened the revised ban to a neon
sign flashing “Muslim ban” that the
government hasn’t turned off.
Here’s a look at Watson’s ruling
and what comes next:
The ruling: Watson said Hawaii
has shown that the ban will harm
the state’s universities and tourism
industry as well as the imam of
a Honolulu mosque, who joined
the lawsuit. Ismail Elshikh said
the ban would prevent his Syrian
mother-in-law from visiting family
in the U.S.
“These injuries have already
occurred and will continue to
occur if the executive order is
implemented and enforced; the
injuries are neither contingent nor
speculative,” the judge wrote.
Chin told The Associated Press
on Thursday that a notable part of
the ruling was that the court took
into account 20 to 25 statements
made by Trump as a candidate and
as president and by his surrogates.
“The court will not crawl into a
corner, pull the shutters closed, and
pretend it has not seen what it has,”
Watson wrote.
The Department of Justice
said it strongly disagrees with the
ruling.
What’s next?: Government
attorneys filed documents
appealing Watson’s decision to the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
a move Chin said he expected.
The judge said his ruling
will stay in place until he orders
otherwise and won’t be suspended
for an appeal.
The administration said in
court documents that the appeal
also applies to Watson’s previous
temporary block of the travel ban.
“The president’s executive order
falls squarely within his lawful
authority in seeking to protect
our nation’s security, and the
department will continue to defend
this executive order in the courts,”
the Justice Department said in a
statement.
How the White House
reacted: The White House believes
Trump’s executive order is legal,
necessary for national security and
will ultimately be allowed to move
forward, spokesman Sean Spicer
said Thursday.
Watson’s indefinite hold is “just
the latest step that will allow the
administration to appeal,” Spicer
said.
Can a different case affect the
Hawaii ruling?: The president
already is appealing a separate case
in Maryland. A judge there blocked
the six-nation travel ban but said it
wasn’t clear that the suspension of
the refugee program was similarly
motivated by religious bias.
The administration wants the
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
to put that ruling on hold while it
considers the case. The Richmond,
Virginia-based court will hear
arguments May 8.
If the court sides with Trump,
it would not have a direct effect
on the Hawaii ruling, legal experts
said.
“What a ruling in 4th Circuit in
favor of the administration would
do is create a split in authority
between federal courts in different
parts of the country,” said Richard
Primus, a professor of constitu-
tional law at the University of
Michigan law school. “Cases with
splits in authority are cases the U.S.
Supreme Court exists to resolve.”
North Carolina is flushing its bathroom bill. What’s next?
By EMERY P. DALESIO
and MEG KINNARD
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — North
Carolina’s General Assembly
passed a measure on Thursday to
repeal the “bathroom bill” that has
provoked an economic backlash
since its hasty enactment a year
ago. Republican leaders and Demo-
cratic Gov. Roy Cooper reached the
deal despite strenuous objections
from both social conservative and
gay rights advocates. Here’s a look
at the details:
House Bill 2
The compromise repeals House
Bill 2, arguably making good on
Cooper’s campaign promise to
get rid of the law signed by his
predecessor, Republican Gov. Pat
McCrory, after GOP leaders rushed
it through the General Assembly
last spring.
HB2 was quickly derided as a
“bathroom bill,” but reached far
beyond public restrooms in North
Carolina.
Because the state had no
anti-discrimination law before then,
HB2 created a new statewide policy
prohibiting discrimination based on
race, religion, color, national origin
or biological sex — while leaving
lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans-
gender people unprotected — in
“public accommodations,” which
include restaurants, hotels and
trespassing, peeping and indecent
exposure that were in effect
before and after HB2.
And some wording in the
compromise bill appears even more
sweeping than HB2 in prohibiting
what local governments can require
from the private sector.
The new law also makes more
explicit than before that state
legislators will make the rules on
using bathrooms — not agencies,
municipalities or universities.
Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rock-
ingham, declined to say whether
lawmakers plan to quickly use this
authority.
It also would impose a mora-
torium against local governments
adopting or changing any ordi-
AP Photo/Brian Blanco
Rep. Michael Speciale, R- Craven, debates on the floor of the the nances regulating private employ-
North Carolina State House prior to a vote on HB 142 on Thursday, ment or public accommodations.
That means municipalities couldn’t
March 30 in Raleigh, N.C.
pass establish terms for car-hailing
public bathrooms.
it would, for now, return North services like Uber, said Cathryn
HB2 also prohibited any local Carolina to more or less how it was Oakley, a lawyer for the Human
government
from
providing before Charlotte passed its ordi- Rights Campaign in Washington.
additional
anti-discrimination nance and the legislature responded
The delay — until December
protections. This prevented an with HB2.
2020 — could give time for
LGBT ordinance passed by the
The revised law repeals the multiple federal lawsuits over
city of Charlotte from taking effect. state’s directive for transgender transgender issues to play out.
The prohibition also banned cities people to only use public
As for transgender people who
from requiring private employers bathrooms and showers that need to use a bathroom, they are
bidding for local contracts to match their birth gender. This basically back where things started
provide any additional benefits, requirement was never backed by in North Carolina. Anybody who
such as a higher minimum wage, to criminal penalties or other teeth, was born one gender and now
but Thursday’s change means identifies as the other can try to use
their workers.
transgressors would continue to whatever bathroom they want — at
The Compromise
If Cooper signs the repeal bill, be punished with the laws against their own risk.
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BRIEFLY
Special service
provides Sunday
‘hymnspiration’
HERMISTON — The public
is invited to an evening of
singing old hymns with new and
old friends.
The Hymnspiration is
Sunday from 5-6 p.m. at Victory
Baptist Church, 103 E. Main
St. Hermiston. The gathering
includes time for food, fun and
fellowship.
For more information, call
Chris Finley at 541-571-2516.
Walla Walla Aglow
meets at new venue
WALLA WALLA —
Saundra Burke, a prophetic
worship leader, will share her
testimony through words and
music during the April Walla
Walla Aglow Community
Lighthouse.
The gathering, which is being
held at a new venue, is Saturday,
April 8 at 10 a.m. at Carrie
Community Center, 711 Carrie
St., Walla Walla. A freewill
offering will be taken for the
event, which includes lunch.
Part of an international
organization, Aglow seeks
to minister to its members
and share God’s word in
the community. For more
information, call Kathy Owsley
at 509-540-2684, Lora Sykes
at 509-540-0212 or visit www.
ecwaglow.
Yard sale to benefit
mission trip
HERMISTON — A yard sale
is planned to help raise money
for a summer mission trip to
build a church in Honduras.
The event is Saturday,
April 8 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at Hermiston Church of the
Nazarene, 1520 W. Orchard Ave.
Donations (except no TVs) will
be accepted Monday through
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
All proceeds from the sale
will go to help purchase extra
suitcases to take supplies and
items to leave for the local
people, as well money to assist
with gas and parking fees at the
airport.
For more information,
contact 541-567-3677,
hermistonnaz@gmail.com
or visit www.facebook.com/
events/260773651015813.
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Main St., Hermiston or Renee
Struthers at 211 S.E. Byers Ave.,
Pendleton. Call 541-564-4539
or 541-966-0818 with questions.
Worship Community
Redeemer
Episcopal
Church
Sunday Worship
10:00am
Wednesday Healing School
6:00pm
Youth Classes:
Nursery - 6th grade Sun & Wed
Jr & Sr High Discipleship Program Wed
Overcomer’s Outreach
Tuesday at 6:00pm - Annex
A Christ-centered, 12-Step
Recovery Support Group
Pastor Sharon Miller
401 Northgate, Pendleton
541-278-8082
www.livingwordcc.com
Come meet Jesus at
PENDLETON BAPTIST
CHURCH
3202 SW Nye Ave Pendleton, OR
541-276-7590
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Sunday Bible Classes 9:45 AM
Sunday Youth Group 6:00 PM
Mon. Community Women’s Study
9:30 AM & 6 PM
Awana Kids Club (K-6th grade)
Wed Men’s Study 6 PM
MOPS meeting the 1st Thur of the Month 6 PM
Grace Baptist Church
FAITH LUTHERAN
CHURCH
in Mission for Christ LCMC
Bible Study.........9:00 AM
Sunday Worship......10:30 AM
Red Lion Hotel
( Oregon Trail Room )
www.faithpendleton.org
First United
Methodist
Church
555 SW 11th, Hermiston
567-9497
Nursery provided for all
services
Sunday School - 9:30 AM
Worship - 10:45 AM
6:00 pm
Wed Prayer & Worship -
7:00 PM
“Proclaiming God’s word,
growing in God’s grace”
Sunday Worship 9am • 541-276-2616
Worship Broadcast on KUMA 1290 @ 11am
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Community
Presbyterian Church
-Presbyterian Church (USA)-
201 SW Dorion Ave.
Pendleton
Service of Worship - 10:00 am
Children’s Sunday School -
10:20 am
Fellowship - 11:00 am
www.pendletonpresbyterian.com
Open Hearted...
Open Minded
Pendleton
352 SE 2nd Street, Pendleton OR
Worship Livestream at
www.facebook.com/FUMCPendleton/
Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
Rev. Dr. Jim Pierce, pastor
St. Johns
Episcopal Church
Join Us
On Our Journey
With Jesus.
241 SE Second St. Pendleton
(541)276-3809
www.pendletonepiscopal.org
Scripture, Tradition and Reason
Sunday Holy Communion 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday Holy Communion Noon
Weekly Adults Spiritual Life Group
Family service 9am Sunday
N.E. Gladys Ave & 7th, Hermiston
Fr. Dan Lediard, Priest. PH: 567-6672
We are an all inclusive Church
who welcomes all.
All Are Welcome
OPEN HEARTS – OPEN DOOR
www.graceandmercylutheran.org
Sunday Worship 8:45 a.m.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m. (Nursery Provided)
Fellowship, Refreshments & Sunday School
Check Out our Facebook Page or
Website for More Information
541-289-4535
Tom Inch, Pastor
Grace and Mercy Lutheran Church, ELCA
(First United Methodist Church)
191 E. Gladys Ave. / P.O. Box 1108
Hermiston, Oregon 97838
Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church
LCMC
Sunday worship at
11:00 AM
420 Locust St. • Boardman, OR
Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church
PENDLETON
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH
Sunday Service: 10am & 6pm
Tuesday Kingdom Seekers: 7pm
Wednesday Bible Study: 7pm
We off er: Sunday School • Sign Language
Interpreters • Nursery • Transportation • & more!
Pastor Dan Satterwhite
541.377.4252
417 NW 21st St. • Pendleton, OR 97801
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PendletonLighthouseChurch
Faith Center Church
Worshiping God
Saturday Services
Pendleton
1401 SW Goodwin Place
276-0882
Sabbath School 9:20 am
Worship Service 10:45 am
FIRST SERVICE 8:30 AM
SECOND SERVICE 10:30 AM
712 SW 27 TH ST.
541-276-1894
www.fcogpendleton.com
Loving People
108 S. Main • 276-9569
Sunday Worship
10:30 am
Sr. Pastor,
Ray O’Grady
pendletonfaithcenter.org
P eace L utheran C hurch
210 NW 9th, Pendleton
ELCA
Join us Sundays
9:30
Sunday
Worship
9:30
am am
Sunday
Worship
10:30 am Fellowship
11:00 am Sunday School
& Adult Class
541-481-6132
~Come and be at Peace ~
Colin Brown, Pastor
on 1290 KUMA noon each Sunday
14 Martin Drive,
Umatilla, OR
922-3250
Worship: 10 AM
Sunday School at 11:30
To share your worship times call Terri Briggs 541-278-2678