By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant - California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom is shutting down churches — again... Newsom announced the closing Monday of dine-in restaurants, wineries, movie theaters and bars statewide, along with churches in 30 out of 58 California counties. .. The order went into effect "immediately," according to a tweet from the Office of the Governor. The tweet explained the state "is closing some indoor business operations statewide and additional indoor business operations in counties on @CAPublicHealth Monitoring List for 3 consecutive days."