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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
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COVID-19 and religious freedom
Jacob Sullum, Reason
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Both NYC Mayor de Blasio and NYS Governor Cuomo actively encouraged mass BLM protests while cracking down on religious services, whether Christian or Jewish. A judge has shot down those restrictions, but most courts are inclined to defer to state-and-local decisions about handling a deadly disease. However, this is one area where the Constitution requires a less deferential approach.