The attack on religious freedom in the name of coronavirus control is appalling, but there’s hope since President Donald Trump’s new U.S. Supreme Court appointee may get her say.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency relief in response to the onerous and unfair COVID-19 restrictions Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has yet again imposed on churches, Fox News reported.
The U.S. Supreme Court previously struck down a case objecting to in-person restrictions on worship services in a 5-4 decision last May, CNN reported.
Now conservatives are hopeful Constitutional originalist Amy Coney Barrett will rightly decide in favor of First Amendment religious liberty, shredding Cuomo’s discriminatory policies and smacking down his anti-religious attorneys if the case is heard.
The Democratic governor’s Oct. 6 executive order color coded geographic areas based on infection rate and stipulated that houses of worship would only be open to 10 people in the red zone, 25 in the orange, and 50 percent capacity in the yellow zone.
Meanwhile, businesses had no such restrictions –precisely the unfair application of the rules that provoked the latest court filing.