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Saying Florida’s strict new abortion ban is causing “immediate and irreparable injury to … fundamental rights and cherished liberties,” seven members of a clergy asked a state court for a temporary injunction Thursday so that they can again advise believers freely based on their own religious values and beliefs.

The request to the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Miami comes a month after the same clerics sued Florida, saying the law that went into effect July 1 violates their freedom of speech, religious liberty and the Constitution’s establishment clause, “because it codifies a singular and exclusive religious belief with no plausible secular justification,” the lawsuit charged.

The Florida law, which makes no exceptions for rape or incest, was signed in April by Gov. Ron DeSantis in a Pentecostal church alongside antiabortion lawmakers such as the House speaker, who called life “a gift from God.” ...