n class="dropcap">In early August, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and the president of the United States lied and passed the buck, 550 supporters attended an “Evangelicals for Trump” rally, hosted by the Trump campaign, at the Ahern Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. They had wanted to hold the event in a church, but churches, event organizers claimed, had been unfairly targeted by the state’s emergency directive limiting the size of public and private gatherings to 50 people. What had actually happened—just two weeks earlier—was that the U.S. Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with the court’s four liberals, had rejected a local church’s claim that being held to the emergency health rule violated its religious freedom.Read Full Article »
