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How Churches Are Reopening During Coronavirus – The Atlantic

A small, vocal minority of pastors have begun to bristle at government-imposed restrictions on their worship, however. Some have simply opened according to their judgment, regardless of what their governments say. Others have sued for their right to gather, with mixed success: On Friday, the Supreme Court denied a California church s request for relief from the state s restrictions on their gatherings, with Chief Justice John Roberts calling claims of unconstitutional discrimination quite improbable. Regardless of their tactics, these churches may define how pastors perceive threats to their religious freedom in any future waves of the pandemic. Let me put it this way, James White, an Arizona pastor with a sizable online following, told me. If [governments] call for this to happen again, there s going to be a different response.

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