The CEO of a Texas hospital company and a conservative group is filing suit seeking to overturn a district judge’s order banning church services in the state.
Dr. Steven Hotze filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the State District Court in Harris County requesting that Judge Lina Hidalgo’s order banning church services be declared unconstitutional and unenforceable.
Hotze is chief executive officer of Hotze Health & Wellness Center and also CEO of Conservative Republicans of Texas. Joining him as plaintiffs are U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, Pastor Juan Bustamante, City on a Hill Church, Pastor George Garcia, Power of Love Church, Pastor David Valdez, World Faith Center of Houston Church and Pastor John Greiner of Glorious Way Church.