Religious Liberty in COVID-19’s Wake

Authors

Mark L. Movsesian, St. John's University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Essay

Publication Title

Law & Liberty

Publication Date

5-12-2020

Abstract

(Excerpt)

The COVID-19 epidemic has reordered Americans’ priorities, including with respect to religious freedom. Debates about whether believers may receive exemptions from anti-discrimination laws continue, of course, and the Supreme Court will issue a ruling any day now on the permissibility of public funding for private religious schools. But in the spring of 2020, the religious freedom issue drawing the most attention in America is this: can the government restrict congregational worship in order to curb the coronavirus epidemic?

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Originally published at: https://lawliberty.org/religious-liberty-in-covid-19s-wake/