Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that New York state can't stop religious communities from gathering in large numbers, even where worshippers are likely to spread the deadly COVID-19 virus to the wider community. With its new conservative majority, the court is poised to intervene repeatedly in the coming years, ostensibly buttressing faith against the onslaught of secularism.
But while some might cheer these as victories in a culture war, judicial intervention on behalf of religion may well only widen the gap between people of faith and the very institutions that they seek to protect.
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