The Department of Justice (DOJ) warned San Francisco&#8217;s Democrat Mayor London Breed that the city&#8217;s limit of one person for houses of worship is both unconstitutional and &#8220;draconian.&#8221;
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In <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1320076/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a letter sent to Breed</a> last week, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California David Anderson wrote, &#8220;San Francisco’s treatment of places of worship raises serious concerns about religious freedom. In particular, the limitation of indoor worship to one congregant without regard to the size of the place of worship is draconian, out of step with the treatment afforded other similar indoor activities in San Francisco, wholly at odds with this Nation’s traditional understanding of religious liberty, and may violate the First Amendment to the Constitution.&#8221;
Acknowledging that Breed has a duty to protect the health of citizens amid the coronavirus, the DOJ explained &#8220;there is no pandemic exception to the Constitution,&#8221; and that no U.S. government can &#8220;attack religion by transforming a house of worship arbitrarily into a place for solitary confinement.”
&#8220;Individual rights, including the protections in the Bill of Rights, are always operative and restrain government action,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;Thus, even in times of emergency, when reasonable, narrowly-tailored, and temporary restrictions may lawfully limit our liberty, the First Amendment and federal statutory law continue to prohibit discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers. These principles are legally binding, and the Constitution’s unyielding protections for religious worshipers distinguish the United States of America from places dominated by tyranny and despotism.
The letter went on to criticize the apparent disparity between how churches are treated in San Francisco compared to other establishments such as &#8220;gyms, tattoo parlors, hair salons, massage studios, and daycares.&#8221;
“Government may not discriminate against religious gatherings compared to other non-religious gatherings that have the same effect on the government’s public health interest, absent compelling reasons,” the letter said, noting the unfairness of allowing only one person into a building such as the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, which can pack in 2,400 people.
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The letter concluded by warning the DOJ &#8220;is reviewing its options and may take further action, as and if appropriate, to protect the religious liberty rights of the people of San Francisco.&#8221;
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera dismissed the letter, telling local CBS affiliate KPIX that the DOJ is &#8220;lobbing careless legal threats.&#8221; He also said that the city&#8217;s reopening is &#8220;consistent with San Francisco’s careful approach and follows closely behind what the State of California allows.&#8221;
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Salvatore Cordileone, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, has repeatedly rebuked city authorities for their lockdown orders against churches, claiming their onerous restrictions are &#8220;mocking God.&#8221; As The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>The Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco claimed that the city’s strict coronavirus lockdown restrictions against houses of worship are “mocking God.”
According to <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-salvatore-cordileone-says-san-francisco-mass-restrictions-are-mocking-god-72251" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Catholic News Agency</a>, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone participated in one of several outdoor Eucharistic processions on Sunday, which converged near San Francisco City Hall before proceeding to the cathedral.
“For months I have pleaded with the City on your behalf, advocating for your need of the consolation of the Mass, and the consolation you derive from the practice of your faith and connection with your faith community. City Hall ignored us,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone preached in his homily during an outdoor Mass.
“It has become clear to me that they just don’t care about you…We have been patiently putting up with unjust treatment long enough, and now it is time to come together to witness to our faith and to the primacy of God, and tell City Hall: No More!”
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The Department of Justice sent a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1320076/download">letter</a> to the city of San Francisco on Friday warning them that their &#8220;one congregant&#8221; policy, under which only one member of the public is allowed in a place of worship at a time, regardless of the size of the building, was raising questions about the right to exercise religious freedoms in the city.
“San Francisco’s treatment of places of worship raises serious concerns about religious freedom,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband and U.S. Attorney David Anderson in the letter. “In particular, the limitation of indoor worship to one congregant without regard to the size of the place of worship is draconian, out of step with the treatment afforded other similar indoor activities in San Francisco, wholly at odds with this Nation’s traditional understanding of religious liberty, and may violate the First Amendment to the Constitution.”
“No government in this free country can attack religion by transforming a house of worship arbitrarily into solitary confinement,” said Dreiband in a separate <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-calls-san-francisco-mayor-end-one-congregant-rule-places-worship-comply">DOJ statement</a> posted on Friday, later adding: “That we are dealing with a very serious public health crisis does not permit government to discriminate against religious worshipers by imposing a one-person-per-house of worship rule while permitting larger numbers of people to gather in tattoo parlors, hair salons, massage studios, and other places. There is no pandemic exception to the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights.”
To bolster its claim that San Francisco appears to be discriminating against people of faith, the department pointed to the fact that gyms are allowed to be open at 10% capacity indoors, and many retail stores are allowed to open at 50% capacity.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Justice-Department-urges-S-F-Mayor-London-Breed-15598284.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, in response to the letter, that the federal government should consider focusing “on an actual pandemic response instead of lobbing careless legal threats.”
Herrera also argued that San Francisco is due to expand its coronavirus restriction guidelines for houses of worship in several days because there hasn’t been a surge of infections in the city, reports the news agency.
According to the DOJ letter to the city, the federal government will be “reviewing its options and may take further action” in order to protect religious liberties.
San Francisco was the first U.S. city to issue a shelter-in-place order for the coronavirus back in March and has been subject to restrictions for longer than many other U.S. cities.
Back in mid-September, Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, the archbishop of San Francisco, published an op-ed in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/16/archibishop-salvatore-cordileone-right-to-worship/">The Washington Post saying</a> he “never expected” that the right to worship would be “unjustly repressed by an American government.”
<blockquote>But that is exactly what is happening in San Francisco. For months now, the city has limited worship services to just 12 people outdoors. Worship inside our own churches is banned. The city recently announced it will now allow 50 for outdoor worship, with a goal of permitting indoor services up to a maximum of 25 people by Oct. 1 — less than 1 percent of the capacity of San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral.
This is not nearly enough to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Catholics in San Francisco. In imposing these restrictions, the city is turning a great many faithful away from their houses of prayer.</blockquote>
The San Francisco city attorney has since told the Chronicle that indoor worship services may host as many as 50 people at a time beginning in October.
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The Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco claimed that the city&#8217;s strict coronavirus lockdown restrictions against houses of worship are &#8220;mocking God.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/archbishop-salvatore-cordileone-says-san-francisco-mass-restrictions-are-mocking-god-72251" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Catholic News Agency</a>, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone participated in one of several outdoor Eucharistic processions on Sunday, which converged near San Francisco City Hall before proceeding to the cathedral.
“For months I have pleaded with the City on your behalf, advocating for your need of the consolation of the Mass, and the consolation you derive from the practice of your faith and connection with your faith community. City Hall ignored us,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone preached in his homily during an outdoor Mass.
“It has become clear to me that they just don’t care about you&#8230;We have been patiently putting up with unjust treatment long enough, and now it is time to come together to witness to our faith and to the primacy of God, and tell City Hall: No More!”
Until Sept. 14, San Francisco, under the leadership of Democrat Mayor London Breed, limited even outdoor religious gatherings to 12 people, one of the strictest limits in the country. Though the permitted number has since increased to 50, only one person is allowed to enter the cathedral to pray.
Hotels in the city are nevertheless open at full capacity and most stores have reopened at 50% capacity.
&#8220;One person at a time in this great Cathedral to pray? What an insult. This is a mockery. They are mocking you, and even worse, they are mocking God,&#8221; Cordileone said. He later went on:
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Our blessed Lord is openly mocked to the gleeful grins of the cultural elites. The sacred symbol of the religious habit is blasphemed with glowing approval of those who profess mutual respect and tolerance for others who are different, while they openly discriminate against us.
In fighting for justice, we fight for the glory of God. And so I am calling on every Catholic in this City, and this country, to continue to exercise responsible citizenship, to abide by reasonable public health rules, and to continue to serve our community, despite the mockery to which we are being subject in so many different ways. This is God’s way, and this is how I see Catholics serving Our Lord.
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Cordileone has spoken out before against San Francisco&#8217;s clampdown on churches. As The Daily Wire reported, an Aug. 21 public letter Cordileone wrote <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-serious-deprivation-of-our-rights-san-francisco-archbishop-pleads-with-mayor-to-ease-coronavirus-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said in part</a>:
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Ours and others’ faith is being treated as less important than a trip to the hardware store, or a nice dinner out on the patio. This denial of access to safe outdoor public worship is a serious deprivation of our rights as Americans under the First Amendment and our spiritual needs as people of faith. One million public Masses without any Covid outbreaks demonstrates that it is just as safe in San Francisco as in other parts of the state, such as San Mateo County, to permit large gatherings for outdoor public worship with reasonable safety precautions.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-NY), who is a Catholic, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/follow-science-pelosi-criticizes-catholic-bishop-pushing-for-looser-coronavirus-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">seemed to dismiss Cordileone&#8217;s concerns</a> last week, saying the archbishop should &#8220;look to the science&#8221; about coronavirus.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-serious-deprivation-of-our-rights-san-francisco-archbishop-pleads-with-mayor-to-ease-coronavirus-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘A Serious Deprivation Of Our Rights’: San Francisco Archbishop Pleads With Mayor To Ease Coronavirus Restrictions</a>
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Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last week that would allow a young adult who has gay sex with a minor to escape registering as a sex offender in some cases, based on a judge’s discretion.
SB145, which was first introduced into the California State Legislature in January 2019 by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), finally passed the 40-member state Senate by <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a vote of 23-10</a>, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-state-senate-passes-bill-that-could-alter-sex-offender-registration-for-gay-sex-with-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>.
Proponents of the legislation such as Wiener claim the law, which provides a judge more leeway in statutory rape cases involving non-vaginal forms of sex, rectifies California&#8217;s historical discrimination against the LGBTQ community. Under SB145, if a young adult has gay sex with a minor 14 or older who is less than 10 years younger, a judge will have the discretion whether to place the individual on the sex offender registry.
As the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-bill-eliminating-sex-offender-list-15529263.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">San Francisco Chronicle explained</a>, “Under current law, a judge can decide whether to place a man who has vaginal intercourse with an underage teenage girl on the sex offender registry based on the facts of the case. But if anal or oral sex, or vaginal penetration with anything other than a penis is involved, the adult must register as a sex offender[.]”
&#8220;I am so grateful that Governor Newsom — one of the LGBTQ community’s strongest allies ever — once again has shown that he’s willing to support our community when it’s hard. And make no mistake: the politics here are hard, with the massive Trump, QAnon and MAGA misinformation campaign against the legislation,&#8221; Wiener said, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-no-longer-felony-knowingly-expose-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">also introduced the 2017 bill</a> that made knowingly exposing a partner to HIV no longer a felony. &#8220;The facts are clear: SB 145 simply ends anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Today, California took yet another step toward an equitable society.&#8221;
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Proving again he‘s a true champion for the LGBTQ community — even when it’s hard — Gov Newsom signed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SB145?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SB145</a>, ending discrimination against LGBTQ young people on CA’s sex offender registry.
Thank you for seeing through the QAnon lies about this equality legislation. My statement: <a href="https://t.co/MQlIIDxfnj">pic.twitter.com/MQlIIDxfnj</a>
&mdash; Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) <a href="https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1304614400892911616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Weiner has before blamed alleged <a href="https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20200807-california-state-senator-introduced-bill-pushing-lgbtq-equality%E2%80%94and-qanon-mob-came-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QAnon conspiracy theorists</a> for sending many of the threats against him and accusing him of trying to legalize pedophilia. “I’ve been the subject of death threats and personal attacks, threatening to decapitate me and send my head to my mother,” Wiener said during an online news conference last month. “This kind of slander, not just against me but against my community, is outrageous and we have to speak out against it.”
The new law did not meet with full-throated support from the California State Legislature, which passed the Assembly and Senate on split votes, <a href="https://abc7news.com/6420294/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_FB&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to local ABC7</a>. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) said, “I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registrable offense. We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator.”
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When residents in San Francisco cast their vote for President of the United States this November, they will also be deciding — for the second time in four years — whether 16-year-olds should be allowed to vote in future local elections.
Although San Francisco voters turned down a similar proposal in 2016, Vote 16 activists believe the measure will pass this time and bring about an array of societal benefits.
“I really think that Vote 16 will help youth of color in San Francisco establish the habit of voting at an earlier age, and really provide them with the support and the resources that they need to continue building on that habit as they grow older,” Crystal Chan, an 18-year old organizer for Vote 16 SF, told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/major-american-city-may-soon-allow-16-year-olds-vote-n1239955">NBC News</a>.
Back in the 2016 election, the measure <a href="https://sfelections.org/results/20161108/">narrowly failed</a> to pass by about 2% of the vote.
The Vote 16 SF website lists four reasons to vote for the measure: Young people should have the opportunity to build the habit, young people between 16 and 17 are already ready to vote, young people already have a vested interest in politics, and young people should have the opportunity to “<a href="http://www.vote16sf.org/">strengthen</a>” their civics education.
“Strong civics education and a lower voting age would mutually reinforce each other to increase civic engagement. A lower voting age would make civics education more effective as providing students a way to directly apply what they’re learning in the classroom in their communities would add a crucial level of relevance to civics courses. It would also encourage more schools to implement higher quality civics education programs given its immediate implications on students lives,” reads the website.
Some of these arguments have resonated with mainstream Democrats over the years, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the San Francisco Democratic lawmaker who presented a similar argument in 2019 in favor of lowering the voting age for federal elections, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/434115-pelosi-says-she-backs-lowering-voting-age-to-16">The Hill.</a>
&#8220;I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16,&#8221; said Pelosi. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s really important to capture kids when they&#8217;re in high school, when they&#8217;re interested in all of this, when they&#8217;re learning about government, to be able to vote.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/voting-changes/lower-voting-age/">The Washington Post</a>, during the Democratic presidential primary, only two candidates affirmatively told the news agency in a questionnaire that they were against lowering the voting age: Former Congressman John Delaney (D-MD), and billionaire progressive activist Tom Steyer. Four minor candidates, including businessman Andrew Yang and Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), indicated they were in favor of such a policy, and several more signaled that they were open to the idea.
Neither former Vice President Joe Biden nor Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), both of whom now comprise the 2020 Democratic ticket for November, gave an affirmative answer to the question during the primary. The news agency does note, however, that Harris did co-sponsor a bill to start a “pre-registration process” for people 16 years old or older. 
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San Francisco will allow hair salons, gyms and other indoor businesses to resume operations on Monday, a decision that follows Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) notorious salon trip and local media reports that some government buildings were keeping their gyms open for employees — despite guidelines prohibiting the same for private gyms. 
“I’m so glad we can move forward earlier than expected to reopen more businesses that have been closed since March. These businesses have been struggling, and starting Monday, they’ll finally be able to serve customers again, with the necessary safety precautions and modifications in place,” said Mayor London Breed (D) in a statement on Thursday. 
“It’s on all of us to keep doing our part so that we can get more businesses reopened, get our kids back in school, and keep making progress on our economic recovery. Wearing face coverings when you go out, keeping your distance, and washing your hands will help us keep the rate of transmission down and will help San Francisco recover from this pandemic,” she added. 
San Francisco, the first city to issue a shelter-in-place order in the country, received national attention for its salon closures after Pelosi was caught on camera visiting a closed hair salon to get her hair washed against city guidelines. 
Pelosi later claimed that she was set up by the salon, which denied the allegation, and suggested she was owed an apology for the ordeal. The salon has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/salon-in-the-middle-of-pelosi-covid-controversy-shutting-down-over-threats-owner-says?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">since closed</a> its doors, according to the business owner. 
Around the same time, private gym owners in the city were voicing their outrage after a <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-government-buildings-keep-gyms-open-crush-private-gym-owners/2357438/">local news report</a> found that the gyms in government buildings were allowed to remain open while private gyms were forced to remain closed. 
“It’s shocking; it’s infuriating. … Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking,” Danielle Rabkin, of Crossfit Golden Gate, told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-government-buildings-keep-gyms-open-crush-private-gym-owners/2357438/">NBC News</a> after she found out gyms at police stations were open. 
“What the city has unwittingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe,” Dave Karraker, another local gym owner, told the news agency earlier this month. “So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have.”
After the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-closes-gyms-in-government-buildings-after-private-gym-owners-voice-outrage">gym owners voiced their outrage</a>, the San Francisco health director circulated a letter to city officials asking them to shut down the gyms for employees, such as gyms in police stations and the gym at City Hall, which has been open since July 1. 
“I recognize that there has been some confusion about the interplay between my orders and the changing State orders and Cal-OSHA requirements and some question about what is allowed as Essential Governmental Services under my orders,” the health director wrote in a letter, obtained by the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-to-open-indoor-hair-and-nail-salons-gyms-and-15558344.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a>. “But the same health and safety concerns that have compelled me to temporarily close indoor gyms due to potential transmission of COVID‐19 apply to the operation of the indoor City gyms. Indoor gyms and fitness centers greatly increase the risk of virus transmission, including from asymptomatic people, due to the relatively limited air circulation, the increase in particle exhalation due to exertion, and the increased risk of people touching shared equipment.”
Less than 48 hours later, San Francisco has changed its policy. Gyms and salons will now be allowed to open for indoor operation. 
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San Francisco reportedly ordered government-run gyms and fitness centers to close on Wednesday after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-infuriating-private-san-francisco-gym-owners-angry-after-gyms-open-in-government-buildings">private gym owners spoke out</a> against the city, which had already been forcing private-run gyms to stay closed.
According to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-shuts-city-owned-gyms-but-could-open-all-15558344.php">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>, San Francisco Health Director Dr. Tomás Aragón distributed a letter to city officials Wednesday explaining that city-run gyms, such as those in police departments and at City Hall, contained the same risk of spreading coronavirus as private gyms, and as such, should not remain open.
“I recognize that there has been some confusion about the interplay between my orders and the changing State orders and Cal-OSHA requirements and some question about what is allowed as Essential Governmental Services under my orders,” Aragón wrote in the letter, obtained by the Chronicle. “But the same health and safety concerns that have compelled me to temporarily close indoor gyms due to potential transmission of COVID‐19 apply to the operation of the indoor City gyms. Indoor gyms and fitness centers greatly increase the risk of virus transmission, including from asymptomatic people, due to the relatively limited air circulation, the increase in particle exhalation due to exertion, and the increased risk of people touching shared equipment.”
Dave Karakker, co-owner of two MX3 gyms and a leader of a fitness studio coalition, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the city’s decision to close its gyms rather than allow all gyms to open was disappointing.
“The city has demonstrated that indoor fitness is safe based on the data derived by the SFPD safely running six months of indoor gym operations,” he said.
San Francisco, the first city in the nation to issue a shelter-in-place order, drew the ire of gym owners earlier this month after a local newspaper reported that government-run gyms didn’t have to comply with the shutdown mandate. 
“It’s shocking; it’s infuriating. &#8230; Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking,” Danielle Rabkin, of Crossfit Golden Gate, told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-government-buildings-keep-gyms-open-crush-private-gym-owners/2357438/">NBC News</a> after she reportedly reached out to police officers she knew and was told they were allowed to use the gyms at the department.
In response to the report, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department told <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-police-gyms-have-remained-open-during-pandemic-shutdowns">KTVU</a>: &#8220;The Department requires sworn members perform and pass a physical fitness exam every six months (twice annually). Because of these requirements and the periodic testing, the SFPD has private gym facilities at all locations throughout the city of San Francisco and they continue to operate in consultation with our Health partners.”
NBC News also reported that the City Hall gym, which is open to employees, judges, bailiffs, and plaintiffs, had a sign establishing rules of operation effective as of July 1.
“What the city has unwittingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe,” Karraker told NBC News, before the policy change. “So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have.”
Update: The day after the city health director distributed the letter instructing gyms in government buildings to close, San Francisco Mayor London Breed <a href="https://sfmayor.org/article/san-francisco-announces-next-phase-reopening-begin-monday">announced</a> that indoor gyms could re-open with limited capacity beginning on Monday. 
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San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious says she&#8217;s shutting her doors following a coronavirus-regulations controversy involving Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) because the incident has brought her nothing but &#8220;negativity.&#8221;
Speaking to Fox News Wednesday, Kious, who owns the E Salon where a maskless Pelosi was filmed getting a blowout, prohibited by San Francisco&#8217;s coronavirus-related lockdown regulations, says she&#8217;s received an outpouring of hatred and it is destroying her business.
“I am actually done in San Francisco and closing my doors, unfortunately,” she announced on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-salon-closing-its-doors">Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson Tonight</a>.
&#8220;I started to just get a ton of phone calls, text messages, emails, all my Yelp review&#8230;saying that they hope I go under and that I fail,” she said. “So just a lot of negativity towards my business.”
She now says she&#8217;s afraid to return to E Salon: “I&#8217;m actually afraid to go back. It’s a little scary and sad,” she told Carlson. “I do have a lot of positive calls and text messages from clients. But other than that, nothing but negativity.&#8221;
After a video emerged showing the Speaker, who has often noted that Americans &#8212; including President Donald Trump &#8212; are not taking the coronavirus threat seriously, walking around inside the salon without a mask on, Pelosi tried to turn the tables on Kious and E Salon, claiming she was the victim of a &#8220;set up,&#8221; and that she&#8217;d been invited by a stylist for a private salon service.
San Francisco permits salons to provide services outdoors only, and only then if clients are seen one at a time. Clients can only receive haircuts, not shampoos, blowouts, or color services. Pelosi, according to the Speaker herself, received a shampoo and a blowout.
After being caught, the Speaker refused to apologize for flouting the city&#8217;s coronavirus-related restrictions. She would only say that she was owed ad apology from the salon, which she claims walked her into a &#8220;set up.&#8221;
“So I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that’s all I’m going to say on that,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-blasts-pelosi-over-salon-trip-mocks-her-setup-claim">Pelosi said, according to the Daily Wire</a>. “I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up. I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times, and when they said, ‘We’re able to accommodate people one person at a time.’ I trusted that.”
In an earlier interview with Carlson, Kious said the claim was &#8220;false.&#8221;
“There was no way I could’ve set that up,” Kious noted. “I’ve had a camera system in there for five years. I mean, I didn’t go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in and set her up. So that is absolutely false.”
Even though E Salon will shut its doors, Kious has other options. A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/sf-salon-pushed-out-by-pelosi-forced-to-relocate">GoFundMe page</a>, set up to support Kious, has raised more than a quarter-million dollars, and Kious has had invitations from some Republican state governors, offering to help her set up shop in states with fewer restrictions and friendlier legislators.
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Salon In The Middle Of Pelosi COVID Controversy Shutting Down Over ‘Negativity,’ Owner Says

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Some private gym owners in San Francisco are incensed after learning that gyms in government buildings have been open for some time, despite coronavirus lockdown edicts that have kept private gyms shuttered.
Daniele Rabkin from Crossfit Golden Gate told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/san-francisco-government-buildings-keep-gyms-open-crush-private-gym-owners/2357438/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC Bay Area</a> that such a revelation made her angry, especially after she had tried so hard to keep her business afloat. &#8220;It&#8217;s shocking; it&#8217;s infuriating. Even though they’re getting exposed, there are no repercussions, no ramifications? It’s shocking,&#8221; she said.
When Rabkin reached out to police to offer them the opportunity to work out at her facility, she reportedly learned that they were able to do so at the SFPD Northern District Police Station. The Hall of Justice gym, another facility where city employees frequent, has been open since July 1.
Dave Karraker, who owns a gym called MX3 Fitness, said, “It just demonstrates that there seems to be some kind of a double standard between what city employees are allowed to do and what the residents of San Francisco are allowed to do.&#8221;
&#8220;What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe,&#8221; Karraker added. &#8220;So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have.&#8221;
When NBC Bay Area reached out to the city government for comment, they &#8220;were told only that the current health order does not allow indoor fitness gyms to operate, and per Mayor London Breed’s latest reopening announcement, privately owned gyms have to stay closed until at least the end of the month.&#8221;
The gyms are the latest apparent coronavirus double standard for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) district; Pelosi stoked outrage last week when footage emerged that showed her secretly getting a blowout at a salon, which would normally be shut to indoor patrons.
Salon owner Erica Kious told Fox News, “It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work.” She added that she “can’t believe” Pelosi was not wearing a mask.
After she was caught, Pelosi deflected <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-accuses-salon-of-setting-her-up-suggests-shes-owed-an-apology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blame to</a> Kious, accusing her of setting her up and suggesting she is owed an apology. &#8220;I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And that when they said, &#8216;Well, we’re able to accommodate people one person at a time, and that we can set up that time,’ I trusted that.&#8221;
Kious <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/erica-kious-nancy-pelosi-hair-salon-owner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">denied</a> Pelosi&#8217;s allegation to Fox News host Tucker Carlson and slammed Pelosi&#8217;s behavior as &#8220;hurtful,&#8221; especially since her business has been devastated by months of lockdown orders and will likely never recover. She also told Carlson that she has been receiving death threats from people in her community after the incident.
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‘It’s Infuriating’: Private San Francisco Gym Owners Angry After Gyms Open In Government Buildings

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who has been adamant about enforcing coronavirus-related regulations on residents of her city, excused Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D-CA) decision to flout the city&#8217;s lockdown restrictions to get a blowout at a salon by attacking President Donald Trump, calling the president a &#8220;dictator&#8221; and a &#8220;terrorist.&#8221;
When asked about Pelosi&#8217;s foray to the shuttered ESalonSF last week for a private hair appointment &#8212; an incident that was caught on tape, with the video showing Pelosi walking around the salon without a mask, despite the <a href="https://sf.gov/information/masks-and-face-coverings-coronavirus-pandemic#:~:text=When%20you%20must%20wear%20a,talk%2C%20cough%2C%20or%20sneeze.">city&#8217;s requirement</a> that masks be worn in businesses  &#8212; Breed would only opine on Trump, seemingly suggesting that Pelosi deserved the break because she&#8217;s a prominent opponent of the president.
&#8220;We have a terrorist, we have a dictator who is running this country and Nancy Pelosi is at the forefront fighting against this person every day, you know, and I&#8217;m not trying to excuse what happened,&#8221; Breed said, according to <a href="https://abc7news.com/society/sf-mayor-defends-speaker-pelosi-over-controversial-salon-visit/6409057/">San Francisco&#8217;s ABC affiliate</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m just saying that to allow an issue like this to turn our city upside down when we got folks who are homeless, we&#8217;ve got people who can&#8217;t open their business, including these salons. I understand.&#8221;
Members of the media then asked Breed why the Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-accuses-salon-of-setting-her-up-suggests-shes-owed-an-apology">chose to blame the salon</a> for the incident, insisting that the owner set her up, rather than simply apologize for breaking regulations.
So, why not apologize, not you, but the speaker,&#8221; one reporter asked.
&#8220;Let me just be clear, I can be responsible for my behavior, I can&#8217;t tell other people what to do,&#8221; Breed said, per ABC.
When asked about protesters, largely salon owners, who hung blow dryers and curlers from trees in front of Pelosi&#8217;s home, an incident <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/angry-salon-customers-protest-at-pelosis-home-hang-blow-dryers-and-curlers-on-pelosis-tree">The Daily Wire reported last week</a>, Breed suggested that detractors need to &#8220;move on.&#8221;
&#8220;I get that they have these feelings, they are voicing their feelings, but we are doing the very best we can and I know that&#8217;s not good enough for them, I understand,&#8221; said Breed. &#8220;I get it, but at the end of the day, it is really time for us to move on.&#8221;
Mayor Breed has taken a particularly hard line on coronavirus restrictions for most San Francisco residents, particularly after a COVID-19 positive individual knowingly attended an event that the mayor and one of her top aides also attended. The city&#8217;s health director was similarly serious about the pandemic just weeks ago, pleading with San Francisco residents to avoid family visits, even if it means they might go weeks or months without seeing a loved one, <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Are-gatherings-allowed-San-Francisco-15410748.php">per SFGate</a>.
In some cases, earlier on in the pandemic lockdowns, Breed even threatened to arrest those attending large gatherings, per <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/14/london-breed-san-francisco-mayor-warns-of-arrests-/">The Washington Times</a>.
Pelosi continues to insist that the incident was a setup and that she is blameless because she was invited to the private appointment by a provided hairstylist.
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After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused her of orchestrating a &#8220;setup,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/sf-salon-pushed-out-by-pelosi-forced-to-relocate">GoFundMe page</a> supporting San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious quickly amassed more than $147,000 in 24 hours and continues to climb.
With a stated goal of $300k, the GoFundMe claims that Kious, owner of eSalon, will now have to shut down and relocate as a result of Pelosi&#8217;s attacks on her.
&#8220;Erica Kious, a single mother of two and owner of eSalon, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair done on Monday, is now being forced to shut down and relocate her business and family due to outrage and threats she is receiving,&#8221; the page claims.
&#8220;A maskless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited eSalon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;San Francisco&#8217;s coronavirus guidelines allowed hair salons to reopen their businesses for outdoor services starting Tuesday, with clients seen one at a time. Haircuts are permitted, according to the guidance, but shampooing and hair coloring services are not.&#8221;
The page, which was set up by Erica&#8217;s family friend, Amy Tarkanian, goes on to conclude that all donations will be in the service of Erica and her business by helping to pay off any debts or relocation expenses. As of this writing, it has accumulated $147,190.
Earlier this week, Kious found herself at the center of a leftist hate storm when surveillance video emerged of Pelosi visiting her salon for a wash and blowout in violation of local ordinances that kept salons closed. In the video, Pelosi was also not wearing a mask, which Kious found &#8220;disrespectful,&#8221; considering that her business and her employees have been suffering under policies that Pelosi has vocally supported.
In response to the online backlash, Pelosi actually demanded that the salon apologize, saying she was victim to a &#8220;setup.&#8221;
“So I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that’s all I’m going to say on that,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-blasts-pelosi-over-salon-trip-mocks-her-setup-claim">Pelosi said</a>. “I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up. I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times, and when they said, ‘We’re able to accommodate people one person at a time.’ I trusted that.&#8221;
“The salon owes me an apology for setting me up,” she added.
Speaking with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Kious said that there is no way she could have set Pelosi up, considering that she has been a customer of the salon for several years, during which she has had a surveillance system.
&#8220;There was no way I could&#8217;ve set that up,&#8221; Kious said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a camera system in there for five years. I mean, I didn&#8217;t go in there and turn cameras on as soon as she walked in and set her up. So that is absolutely false.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/salon-owner-shreds-pelosis-claim-that-she-was-set-up-she-set-appointment-has-been-coming-in-for-quite-a-while">Salon Owner Shreds Pelosi’s Claim That She Was ‘Set Up’: She Set Appointment; Has Been ‘Coming In For Quite A While’</a>
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Salon Owner’s GoFundMe Raises $147k After Pelosi Controversy

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CNN host Don Lemon told viewers Wednesday evening that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should have accepted responsibility for visiting a hair salon in San Francisco in defiance of local coronavirus restrictions, instead of deflecting and alleging that she had been deliberately set up. 
“Take this, the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that she was set up after she was seen not wearing a face mask at a San Francisco hair salon,” said Lemon, who showed footage of the salon visit and the speaker “as she walks from one room to another, not wearing a mask and having haircuts indoors against the rules there.”
Lemon then showed a video of Pelosi deflecting blame for her illicit beauty session, and telling reporters that she would only “take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon” and subsequently “falling for a set-up.”
“So the Speaker of the House is blaming the salon after she didn’t wear a mask indoors,” continued Lemon, who pointed out that the Salon owner, Erica Kious, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-salon-owner-says-nancy-pelosi-broke-lockdown-order-for-blowout-just-disturbing">denied the set-up accusations</a> to Fox News. “Regardless, this far into the pandemic, the House Speaker should know what is safe and what isn’t. We should all know. It’s our responsibility. Instead of claiming a set-up, it would have been just as easy for the Speaker to say, ‘You know what, I messed up. I should have worn a mask indoors.’”
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While California recently changed the restrictions to allow for indoor services at salons in every county, regardless of coronavirus case count — but with major restrictions and attendance caps in place — San Francisco has not yet implemented those guidelines. 
Jonathan DeNardo, the speaker’s stylist for the visit, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosis-daughter-releases-letter-from-law-firm-attacking-owner-of-salon-that-pelosi-visited-setup">released a statement</a> Wednesday evening through his legal counsel, in which he sided with Pelosi against Kious, who DeNardo claims explicitly approved the speaker’s visit on a phone call the night before. 
The letter, which Nancy Pelosi’s daughter amplified on Twitter, also claimed Kious has been operating illegally at various points in time prior to the visit and that Kious made “several vitriolic and incendiary comments” about Pelosi in the phone call. The letter also alleged Kious has been “actively encouraging and almost forcing stylists” to show up to work so that she can receive payments for the chairs she leases to them. 
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t even political,&#8221; Kious told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/erica-kious-nancy-pelosi-hair-salon-owner">Fox News</a> in an interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s the fact that she actually came in, didn&#8217;t have a mask on, and I just thought about my staff and people not being able to work and make money and provide for their families, and if she is in there comfortably without a mask and feeling safe, then why are we shut down? Why am I not able to have clients come in?&#8221;
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CNN’s Don Lemon Says Pelosi Should Have Accepted Responsibility For Salon Visit

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After it was reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) broke coronavirus lockdown rules to visit a salon, Politico reporter Carla Marinucci came to the top Democrat’s defense by suggesting it might have been illegal to post security camera footage of Pelosi at the San Francisco salon.
“Have to ask upon seeing this: Is it legal in CA – a &#8216;two party consent&#8217; state – to videotape someone in a private home or business without their consent?” Marinucci asked while linking to a Fox News report about Pelosi’s salon visit.
Attorneys quickly pointed out that it is legal to post security camera footage.
Had Marinucci been correct, it would have meant California businesses wouldn’t be allowed to even install security cameras without posting some sort of statement suggesting that by entering the store, customers consent to be taped.
On Tuesday night, a San Francisco salon owner accused Pelosi of breaking the city’s coronavirus lockdown order to get a blowout. The Daily Wire’s Tim Pearce <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-salon-owner-says-nancy-pelosi-broke-lockdown-order-for-blowout-just-disturbing">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Security footage taken from the small business and provided to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face">Fox News</a> appears to confirm the salon owner’s allegation, showing the leading House Democrat with wet hair and no mask walking through the shop on Monday. Hair salons across the city were allowed to open for outdoor services only on Monday for the first time since March.
“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Erica Kious, owner of eSalon, told Fox News. “We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right? … It is just disturbing.”</blockquote>
Salons in San Francisco have been able to reopen at limited capacity but only for outdoor services. They are “not supposed to blow dry hair,” according to the coronavirus guidelines, and masks are mandated inside at all times.
As Pearce reported, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammil denied the allegations made by Kious, telling Fox News that “the speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements.”
Security footage showed otherwise, and Pelosi quickly admitted to breaking lockdown order but claimed she didn’t know she had done anything wrong. The Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-admits-breaking-lockdown-for-salon-visit-blames-business-says-she-did-nothing-wrong">reported</a> that Pelosi blamed the salon for her breaking lockdown orders.
“This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,” Hammill said. “The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.”
“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen?” Kious, the salon owner, said of message from one of the stylists concerning Pelosi’s request.
“We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can’t – it’s a feeling – a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,” she added. “I have been fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen.”
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Politico Reporter Questions Whether It’s Legal To Post Security Footage Of Pelosi At Salon Since California Is A ‘Two-Party Consent’ State

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The California State Senate passed a controversial reform to its sex offender registry Monday that would allow a young adult who has gay sex with a minor to escape registering in some cases, based on a judge&#8217;s discretion.
SB145 finally passed the 40-member state Senate by <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a vote of 23-10</a>, after first being <a href="https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20190122-senator-wiener-introduces-legislation-end-discrimination-against-lgbt-people-regarding" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">introduced</a> by California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) in 2019, according to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-bill-eliminating-sex-offender-list-15529263.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">San Francisco Chronicle</a>.
Wiener argued that the current law discriminates against LGBT youth because, as the Chronicle explained, &#8220;Under current law, a judge can decide whether to place a man who has vaginal intercourse with an underage teenage girl on the sex offender registry based on the facts of the case. But if anal or oral sex, or vaginal penetration with anything other than a penis is involved, the adult must register as a sex offender[.]&#8221;
Under SB145, if a young adult has gay sex with a minor 14 or older who is less than 10 years younger, a judge will have the discretion whether to place the individual on the sex offender registry.
&#8220;This eliminates discrimination against LGBTQ youth in our criminal justice system,&#8221; Wiener said.
The bill&#8217;s passage was a victory for Wiener, who had been trying in recent weeks to salvage it before the end of the legislative session. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-state-senator-fights-for-bill-that-could-alter-sex-offender-registration-for-gay-sex-with-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>According to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Scott-Wiener-tries-to-salvage-bill-fixing-15482729.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>, California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is using the last few weeks of the legislative session to mobilize support for <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SB145</a>, a bill he introduced last year that stalled in a key committee. The legislation would allow “judges discretion over sex-offender registration in all cases involving voluntary intercourse between teenagers ages 14 to 17, who cannot legally consent, and adults who are less than 10 years older.&#8221;</blockquote>
“It makes no sense,&#8221; Wiener told <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sex-offender-registration-reform-effort-prompts-death-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The San Francisco Examiner</a> of the present statute. &#8220;It disproportionately impacts LGBTQ people because LGBTQ people are far less likely to be engaging in penile, vaginal intercourse.&#8221;
Wiener was also the state senator who introduced the bill that made knowingly exposing a partner to HIV no longer a felony in 2017, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-no-longer-felony-knowingly-expose-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
Janice Bellucci, executive director of the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) that supported the bill, said in a Monday <a href="https://all4consolaws.org/2020/09/ca-legislature-passes-senate-bill-145/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">press release</a>, &#8220;Senate Bill 145 has been controversial since its introduction. Due to the dedication of its author, Senator Scott Wiener, Senate Bill 145 was passed over the objections of the Appropriations Committee chair and despite multiple threats of physical harm.&#8221;
Weiner singled out alleged <a href="https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20200807-california-state-senator-introduced-bill-pushing-lgbtq-equality—and-qanon-mob-came-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QAnon conspiracy theorists</a> for sending many of the threats against him and accusing him of trying to legalize pedophilia. &#8220;I’ve been the subject of death threats and personal attacks, threatening to decapitate me and send my head to my mother,” Wiener said during an online news conference last month. “This kind of slander, not just against me but against my community, is outrageous and we have to speak out against it.&#8221;
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) said, &#8220;I cannot in my mind as a mother understand how sex between a 24-year-old and a 14-year-old could ever be consensual, how it could ever not be a registrable offense. We should never give up on this idea that children should be in no way subject to a predator.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-state-senator-fights-for-bill-that-could-alter-sex-offender-registration-for-gay-sex-with-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">California State Senator Fights For Bill That Could Alter Sex Offender Registration For Gay Sex With Minors</a>
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California State Senate Passes Bill That Could Alter Sex Offender Registration For Gay Sex With Minors

The California State Senate passed a controversial reform to its sex offender registry Monday that would allow a young adult who has gay sex with a minor

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On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement via her deputy chief of staff confessing to breaking city lockdown rules to get her hair done indoors at a San Francisco salon on Monday, seemingly without wearing a mask.
Pelosi, however, is not admitting to any wrongdoing, instead shifting blame to the salon she visited.
“The Speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements,&#8221; said a statement from Pelosi&#8217;s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill, <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/nancy-pelosi-confirms-she-got-hair-done-indoors-in-san-francisco">according</a> to FOX KTVU.
&#8220;This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,&#8221; Hammill added. &#8220;The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.&#8221;
&#8220;Security footage taken from the small business and provided to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face">Fox News</a> appears to confirm the salon owner’s allegation, showing the leading House Democrat with wet hair and no mask walking through the shop on Monday,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-salon-owner-says-nancy-pelosi-broke-lockdown-order-for-blowout-just-disturbing">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier on Tuesday. &#8220;Hair salons across the city were allowed to open for outdoor services only on Monday for the first time since March.&#8221;
“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” eSalon owner Erica Kious told Fox News. “We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right? … It is just disturbing.”
The Daily Wire noted, &#8220;While salons have been allowed to open in limited capacity, stylists still are &#8216;not supposed to blow dry hair&#8217; according to coronavirus safety guidelines, Kious said. The government also mandates that masks be worn at all times inside the salon itself.&#8221;
According to KTVU, salons, which have been crushed by COVID-related restrictions, &#8220;may only cut hair outdoors <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/salons-barbershops-and-gyms-get-permission-to-soon-open-in-san-francisco">under new rules</a> that took effect [Tuesday].&#8221;
&#8220;Kious’ small business does not employ any workers directly, but rents out chairs to independent stylists. One of the stylists she works with texted her on Sunday that the speaker had requested a hair appointment,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;Kious’ business was not equipped to perform any appointments outside as mandated by coronavirus regulations, however.&#8221;
“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen?” Kious said of receiving the message concerning Pelosi.
“We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can’t – it’s a feeling – a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,” she described. “I have been fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen.”
“I am a single mom, I have two small children, and I have no income,” added Kious. “The fact that they did this, and she came in, it’s like a slap in the face.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-salon-owner-says-nancy-pelosi-broke-lockdown-order-for-blowout-just-disturbing">San Francisco Salon Owner Says Nancy Pelosi Broke Lockdown Order For Blowout: ‘Just Disturbing’</a>
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Pelosi Admits Breaking Lockdown For Salon Visit; Blames Business, Says She Did Nothing Wrong

On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement via her deputy chief of staff confessing to breaking city lockdown rules to get her

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The Archbishop of San Francisco claimed Monday that the city government is depriving Catholics of their religious rights and urged Democratic Mayor London Breed and public health officials to &#8220;at a minimum, remove the excessive limits on outdoor public worship.&#8221;
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone explained in a <a href="https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">public letter</a> the importance of gathering together physically to celebrate the Mass and pointed out that &#8220;San Francisco is the only government in the entire Bay Area that restricts public gatherings to 12 people out of doors.&#8221; He also referenced a <a href="https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2020/08/19/evidence-based_guidelines_to_celebrate_mass_safely_are_working.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">study</a> by &#8220;three major infectious disease specialists&#8221; that &#8220;over one million public [M]asses have been celebrated following guidelines to prevent the spread of the virus … for Catholic churches following these guidelines, no outbreaks of COVID-19 have been linked to church attendance.&#8221;
Cordileone continued:
<blockquote>Ours and others’ faith is being treated as less important than a trip to the hardware store, or a nice dinner out on the patio. This denial of access to safe outdoor public worship is a serious deprivation of our rights as Americans under the First Amendment and our spiritual needs as people of faith. One million public Masses without any Covid outbreaks demonstrates that it is just as safe in San Francisco as in other parts of the state, such as San Mateo County, to permit large gatherings for outdoor public worship with reasonable safety precautions.</blockquote>
Read the archbishop&#8217;s full statement <a href="https://sfarchdiocese.org/letters-and-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
San Francisco&#8217;s strict lockdown order applies not just to churches but to businesses such as hair salons and barbershops. The city&#8217;s congresswoman, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-salon-owner-says-nancy-pelosi-broke-lockdown-order-for-blowout-just-disturbing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">headlines</a> Tuesday when footage emerged of her getting her hair done in a salon that was otherwise shut down.
As reported by <a href="https://catholic-sf.org/news/archbishop-urges-san-francisco-to-ease-restrictions-on-public-worship" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Catholic San Francisco</a>, the mayor&#8217;s updated reopening schedule includes &#8220;a potential mid-September expansion of outdoor worship services to 50 people from the current limit of 12. Indoor worship is listed as a goal for the end of September, with gatherings of up to 25 or 25% of capacity.
Cordileone added his voice to the chorus of California church leaders who are speaking out against what they claim as onerous lockdown orders against houses of worship and other establishments the state has deemed non-essential.
Just south of San Francisco in Santa Clara County, North Valley Baptist Church was smacked with a $10,000 fine recently after county agents inspected their service to see if congregants were singing while gathered indoors. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-plead-with-you-back-off-california-church-fined-thousands-for-meeting-in-person-and-singing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>, a four-age notice plastered on the church&#8217;s door informed it that it was being fined for holding two indoor services during which singing took place.
Senior Pastor Jack Trieber told state and local authorities in a Facebook video, &#8220;I plead with you, back off. Open up the spiritual environment of this valley immediately because we’re going to see chaos. I’m not threatening that we’re going to create chaos … but I am willing to take a stand.&#8221;
In a similar case last week, Los Angeles County <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-harassment-la-county-terminates-parking-lot-lease-of-john-macarthurs-church" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">terminated</a> a parking lot lease it held with Grace Community Church after Pastor John MacArthur and the congregation took them to court once the county threatened daily fines for resuming in-person assembly.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-in-california-tear-down-religious-statue-of-father-junipero-serra" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WATCH: Rioters In California Tear Down Religious Statue Of Father Junipero Serra</a>
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The Archbishop of San Francisco claimed Monday that the city government is depriving Catholics of their religious rights and urged Democratic Mayor London

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-imposes-strictest-shutdown-in-nation-leaves-many-unanswered-questions">San Francisco</a> salon owner says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) violated the city’s coronavirus lockdown order to get her hair done.
Security footage taken from the small business and provided to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-san-francisco-hair-salon-owner-calls-it-slap-in-the-face">Fox News</a> appears to confirm the salon owner’s allegation, showing the leading House Democrat with wet hair and no mask walking through the shop on Monday. Hair salons across the city were allowed to open for outdoor services only on Monday for the first time since March.
“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Erica Kious, owner of eSalon, told Fox News. “We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right? … It is just disturbing.”
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While salons have been allowed to open in limited capacity, stylists still are “not supposed to blow dry hair” according to coronavirus safety guidelines, Kious said. The government also mandates that masks be worn at all times inside the salon itself.
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill denied the allegations made by the salon owner, telling Fox News that “the speaker always wears a mask and complies with local COVID requirements.”
Kious&#8217; small business does not employ any workers directly, but rents out chairs to independent stylists. One of the stylists she works with texted her on Sunday that the speaker had requested a hair appointment. Kious’ business was not equipped to perform any appointments outside as mandated by coronavirus regulations, however.
“I was like, are you kidding me right now? Do I let this happen?” Kious thought after receiving the message but noting that she has limited control over the stylists who rent chairs from her.
“We have been shut down for so long, not just me, but most of the small businesses and I just can’t – it’s a feeling – a feeling of being deflated, helpless and honestly beaten down,” Kious said. “I have been fighting for six months for a business that took me 12 years to build to reopen.”
“I am a single mom, I have two small children, and I have no income,” she continued. “The fact that they did this, and she came in, it’s like a slap in the face.”
State-mandated lockdowns have hit small businesses and workers extremely hard since the outbreak of the pandemic in mid-March. Tens of thousands of small businesses have gone under and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/recovery-continues-employment-up-1-8-million-unemployment-falls-to-10-2">unemployment rate</a> nationally measured at just over 10% for the month of July.
Pelosi’s excursion to eSalon appears to be the second miscalculation she has made in as many weeks. On Thursday, she said the Democratic nominee Joe Biden should skip debating President Donald Trump after many pundits and media personalities attempted to cast such concerns as right-wing conspiracies. Pelosi is the most senior Democratic leader to suggest that Biden skip the debates.
“I myself — don’t tell anybody I told you this, especially don’t tell Joe Biden — I don’t think that there should be any debates. I do not think that the President of the United States has comported himself in a way that anybody that has any association with truth, evidence, data, and facts,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-exercise-in-skullduggery-pelosi-argues-that-biden-shouldnt-dignify-debate-with-trump">Pelosi</a> said during a press conference. “I wouldn’t legitimize a conversation with him, nor a debate in terms of the presidency of the United States.”
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San Francisco Salon Owner Says Nancy Pelosi Broke Lockdown Order For Blowout: ‘Just Disturbing’

A San Francisco salon owner says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) violated the city’s coronavirus lockdown order to get her hair done. Security footage

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A California state senator is seeking to salvage a bill that could decriminalize gay sex between young adults and minors in some cases, arguing that present state laws governing the sex offender registry unfairly discriminate against the LGBTQ community.
According to <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Scott-Wiener-tries-to-salvage-bill-fixing-15482729.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The San Francisco Chronicle</a>, California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) is using the last few weeks of the legislative session to mobilize support for <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SB145</a>, a bill he introduced last year that stalled in a key committee. The legislation would allow &#8220;judges discretion over sex-offender registration in all cases involving voluntary intercourse between teenagers ages 14 to 17, who cannot legally consent, and adults who are less than 10 years older.&#8221;
As The San Francisco Chronicle reported:
<blockquote>If a man has vaginal intercourse with an underage teenage girl, the judge can decide whether he should be placed on the sex offender registry based on the facts of the case. But if anal or oral sex, or vaginal penetration with anything other than a penis, is involved, the adult must register as a sex offender — a <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Keeping-gay-men-off-California-s-sex-offender-13826028.php">relic of a penal code that criminalized those acts</a> until 1975, even between consenting adults.</blockquote>
“California’s sex offender registry continues to draw that distinction — an antiquated, outdated, leftover distinction — that somehow oral sex is worse than vaginal sex,” Wiener said. He added that such precedent is &#8220;horrific homophobia&#8221; that is &#8220;irrational, and it ruins people’s lives.&#8221;
&#8220;It makes no sense. It disproportionately impacts LGBTQ people because LGBTQ people are far less likely to be engaging in penile, vaginal intercourse,&#8221; Wiener told <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sex-offender-registration-reform-effort-prompts-death-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The San Francisco Examiner</a>.
Wiener, who co-sponsored a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/09/knowingly-infecting-others-with-hiv-is-no-longer-a-felony-in-california-advocates-say-it-targeted-sex-workers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2017 bill</a> that made knowingly exposing a partner to HIV no longer a felony, claims his support for SB145 has exposed him to danger. &#8220;I’ve been the subject of death threats and personal attacks, threatening to decapitate me and send my head to my mother,&#8221; Wiener said earlier this week during an online news conference. &#8220;This kind of slander, not just against me but against my community, is outrageous and we have to speak out against it.&#8221; He singled out QAnon conspiracy theorists, who believe he is attempting to legalize pedophilia.
Chad Felix Greene, a conservative journalist who is gay, wrote in <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/12/no-california-shouldnt-decriminalize-adult-sex-with-14-year-olds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Federalist</a>, &#8220;As has become far too common, opposing perceived right-wing attacks is more important than critically addressing dangerous legislation.&#8221;
Greene continued:
<blockquote>Providing reasonable legal accommodation to this very specific and narrow experience should not be an open invitation for adults to exploit young teenagers by engaging in sex with them. Unfortunately, Wiener and other California lawmakers, who have had no formal pushback on this legislation so far, are more interested in pursuing grand social ideals rather than writing simple, rational law. Left-wing media is all too happy to use labels of “hate” and “conspiracy theories” to dismiss legitimate concerns.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-9-year-old-boy-asks-buttigieg-for-advice-on-coming-out-as-gay" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WATCH: 9-Year-Old Boy Asks Buttigieg For Advice On Coming Out As Gay</a>
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California State Senator Fights For Bill That Could Alter Sex Offender Registration For Gay Sex With Minors

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The Professional Golfers Association held its annual championship last weekend at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
Pro golfer Bud Cauley did pretty well, finishing at 1-under par and earning $45,000. He tied with mega-star Tiger Woods and the up-and-coming Justin Thomas for 37th at the tournament.
Cauley said he liked the golf course, but added, &#8220;you can have the rest of that place.&#8221;
While he parked on a city street, thieves broke into his SUV. He said he called the police but added they wouldn&#8217;t be coming out because they were &#8220;so overworked with crime.&#8221;
“Tpc Harding is a great golf course but you can have the rest of that place. My car window got busted in yesterday, in the middle of a busy street and someone stole my backpack. i called 911 and couldn’t get a police officer to come because they were so overworked with crime,” Cauley wrote on Instagram.
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Cauley didn&#8217;t reveal what was in his backpack in his post (which was liked by Thomas).
Crime in San Francisco has been rising for the last several years. The city experienced 355 robberies, 598 burglaries and 4,461 thefts per 100,000 people in 2018, the most recent data provided on City-Data.com.
City police are reporting a major recent increase in burglaries, KRON-TV <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-report-burglary-spike-in-san-francisco-during-pandemic/">reported</a>, noting that &#8220;there’s growing concern these break-ins are taking place while people are at home.&#8221;
<blockquote>Burglars are targeting homes and businesses throughout the city of San Francisco. “Year to date, we have seen almost a 40% increase citywide,” Officer Robert Rueca said. &#8230; &#8220;As we have gone into the shelter-in-place and more people have been staying home we have experienced this increase in burglaries. It is disconcerting because most people are home,” Rueca said.</blockquote>
Cauley&#8217;s post drew supportive remarks from fans. &#8220;How sad&#8230; PGA needs to think again before anymore events are scheduled there&#8230;  if they truly want to protect players&#8230; police are more important than masks,&#8221; wrote one person on Instagram.
Said another: &#8220;Liberals have ruined that place! Hell just 5 years ago it was night and day from what it is now. Such a tragic story of a city that lost itself.&#8221;
Cauley was severely injured in 2018 when he was one of four people involved in a car accident. The car went airborne before striking a large tree and three smaller trees and stopping in a ditch, according to a police report. Cauley broke six ribs, fractured his left leg, and suffered a collapsed lung.
&#8220;I would like to thank everyone for their messages and support,&#8221; Cauley wrote at the time on Instagram. &#8220;Friday was the scariest night of my life, but I&#8217;m so thankful to be alive and only have the injuries I have. I have no timetable to return to the PGA Tour, but I had successful surgery yesterday, and every day is a step closer to competing again. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll use this time to reflect and get stronger.&#8221;
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PGA Golfer Says San Francisco Police Couldn’t Respond To Car Break-In Because They’re ‘So Overworked With Crime’

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San Francisco police arrested two people for allegedly building a narcotics lab in a hotel that has partnered with the city to quarantine coronavirus patients and house the homeless during the pandemic.
Police were called to the hotel on Saturday to investigate odd fumes coming from one of its rooms, according to <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/meth-lab-found-at-san-francisco-hotel-room-used-as-city-covid-19-shelter">KTVU</a>. Law enforcement ordered residents and others staying at the hotel to evacuate while a hazmat team moved in to take down the low-level narcotics lab built in one of the hotel’s upper floor rooms.
Some have speculated that the lab was being used to produce meth, though investigators are still working to determine what drugs were being manufactured, police say.
“Officers conducted an investigation and discovered chemicals known to make narcotics, which were isolated to one guest room,” a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-police-bust-meth-lab-hotel-alternative-housing-program">Fox News</a> in a statement. “Two adults were arrested for narcotics-related charges, some of which are possession of controlled substances, possession of controlled substances for sales, manufacturing controlled substances, and conspiracy.”
The hotel has contracted with San Francisco as part of the city’s Shelter in Place program. The initiative pays for a room and meals for people who are under quarantine or at risk for COVID-19 and pays for homeless people to live in hotels amid the pandemic. It is unclear whether the two people arrested were part of the program, though they were residents at the hotel.
Still, some who live and work in the area raised questions about the program’s oversight after the incident.
“I would like for the government to have a bit more of a monitoring of the space,” one man who worked at a nearby business told KTVU. “I do see that a place like this can be abused to be used for those kinds of activities.”
“If you are housing people that are not there with a security deposit or anything that makes them liable, liability is key,” the man said.
The narcotics lab bust has moved the city of San Francisco, which has been criticized for keeping information about the controversial housing program secret, to update its guidelines about how the program is run.
According to <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/meth-arrests-at-san-francisco-coronavirus-shelter-lead-to-program-changes/2339609/">NBC</a>, the new rules for the program are:
<blockquote>Revised wellness checks
Room inspections
Emergency safety checks
Safe exit policy revisions
Training and oversight measures</blockquote>
Erica Sandberg, a host for the Bay Area news service KRON, slammed San Francisco’s housing program in a June 24 article for <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-hotel-motel-plan-for-homeless">City Journal</a>. Sandberg said that city officials have hidden information on who is taking advantage of the housing program, what kinds of people are moving into which neighborhoods, and what city funds are being spent on.
Sandberg writes in part:
<blockquote>City and hotel workers are required to sign nondisclosure agreements and are forbidden from discussing what they’re seeing. Per the <a href="https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/sf_admin/0-0-0-3060">Mayor’s Declaration of Emergency</a>, speaking out can result in a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment with a maximum sentence of one year, or both.
Nevertheless, concerned inside sources report destroyed rooms and rampant illegal drug use. In one hotel, guests are given needle kits and are advised to call the front desk before shooting up; there have been four deaths in the last few days. Sharp containers have been placed on every floor; used syringes are discarded haphazardly. Badly needed mental-health help is not being administered. The entire operation is disorganized, with staff members constantly moved around, never knowing what they’ll do from one day to the next. One source asked to make it clear that as public servants they love the city and all its inhabitants, but the plan has left them deeply demoralized.</blockquote>
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Drug Lab Busted In San Francisco Hotel Turned Pandemic Shelter For Homeless

San Francisco police arrested two people for allegedly building a narcotics lab in a hotel that has partnered with the city to quarantine coronavirus

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