{"id":2554,"date":"2020-12-15T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2020-12-15T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:43:18","slug":"a-hollow-victory-for-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2020\/12\/a-hollow-victory-for-religious-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hollow Victory for Religious Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his article in JURIST Legal News and Commentary<\/a>, Rabbi Gradofsky discusses the SCOTUS decision about New York coronavirus restrictions on churches and synagogues.<\/p>\n

As a rabbi who has not attended an indoor prayer service since March, I still would have been happy if the Supreme Court had held that draconian restrictions on indoor religious services are unconstitutional. However, what the Court\u2019s liberal and conservative justices actually evaluated in\u00a0Roman Catholic Diocese v. Cuomo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was whether\u00a0New York\u2019s coronavirus restrictions<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0had targeted religion for harsh treatment. That should never have been the issue, and the fact that it was makes the Court\u2019s holding a hollow victory for religious liberty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more at https:\/\/www.jurist.org\/commentary\/2020\/12\/noah-gradofsky-religious-liberty\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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As a rabbi who has not attended an indoor prayer service since March, I still would have been happy if the Supreme Court had held that draconian restrictions on indoor religious services are unconstitutional. However, what the Court\u2019s liberal and conservative justices actually evaluated in\u00a0Roman Catholic Diocese v. Cuomo\u00a0was whether\u00a0New York\u2019s coronavirus restrictions\u00a0had targeted religion for harsh treatment. That should never have been the issue, and the fact that it was makes the Court\u2019s holding a hollow victory for religious liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,151,78,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[89],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-coronavirus","category-modern-judaism","category-politics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t