Timeline for Is there any judicial precedent regarding US governors' power (or lack thereof) to limit church attendance in an emergency?
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| Apr 21, 2020 at 17:21 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | FYI, I saw a televised Easter service from the National Basilica in DC this weekend which I believe has a "12 or more" limit. By my count there were exactly 11 people in the enormous sanctuary: 1 priest, 4 assistants, 5 acolytes/attendants and 1 organist. There's no commandment or religious imperative in Christianity for worshipping in large groups. This purely has to do with the business model of certain churches/pastors. | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 13:57 | comment | added | Graham | @9072997 For the former, they should be fine with 10 people then. As for communion at Easter (and I presume at Christmas as the second one?), Easter has just come and gone. I could maybe see a challenge based on that to get an exception for those as special cases in future, just in case we're still in lockdown by Christmas or next Easter, but they still couldn't stretch that to apply to regular Sunday services. | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 13:14 | comment | added | 9072997 | @Graham there is a case to be made that the verse you reference explicitly requires physically gathering together (though admittedly not in large groups). Also, I know people who believe that there are only 2 sacraments we are instructed to observe, and one of them is communion at Easter. I don't agree with either of these interpretations of scripture, but they exist. | |
| Apr 21, 2020 at 12:09 | comment | added | Graham | I'm curious why the judge would think this? It's even more incomprehensible in terms of Christianity, whose scripture explicitly rejects any need for churches or mass congregations ("where two or three are gathered together, there am I"). Regardless of the religion though, this places no restriction on practising the religion nor even on carrying out prayers, only on the proximity to others. This would be a problem for taking communion of course, but no Christian church has an absolute requirement for communion to take place regularly. | |
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| Apr 20, 2020 at 13:36 | answer | added | Looking for loopholes | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 13:18 | comment | added | Looking for loopholes | Somewhat similar cases mentioned in other states in this article. The details differ though, e.g drive-through [church] service etc. | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 12:34 | answer | added | David Reed | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 20, 2020 at 0:33 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Apr 19, 2020 at 21:20 | history | asked | Looking for loopholes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |