This is what it looks like when a pandemic collides with the culture wars in America.The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, warned churches that holding services on Easter Sunday would defy the city's social distancing guidelines. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and Senate majority leader, answered
The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, warned churches that holding services on Easter Sunday would defy the city’s social distancing guidelines. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and Senate majority leader, answered with a stern letter, arguing, “Religious people should not be singled out for disfavored treatment.”
President Donald Trump does on occasion speak about the importance of social distancing, as he did Monday, but he is also encouraging discontent, seeing it as a source of raw emotion he can tap as protesters across the country wave “Trump 2020” flags and demand that the country reopen.
So far, a mass uprising seems unlikely. Many of the demonstrations, like one in Denver on Sunday, have drawn only a few hundred people. Larger gatherings, like one at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, last week, attracted far-right activists and militia sympathizers, some of whom had semi-automatic rifles slung over their shoulders.
Pointing to a recent survey from the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute that found nearly 90% of houses of worship in the country were no longer offering services as usual, Reed said that there were growing questions among religious conservatives, like “why liquor stores and grocery stores can be open, but their churches are closed.” Reed added that while he thought most people were still willing to stay home, he saw patience fraying.
The restriction amounted to “an abuse of power and part of an ongoing effort to use sham justifications to shut down clinics and make an end run around Roe v. Wade,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, one of the groups that sued Texas. Clinics remain closed and the governor has said he will leave it up to the courts to decide whether the easing of restrictions on some medical procedures, set to take effect Wednesday, applies to abortions.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order preventing the release of some inmates at risk of contracting the virus. Abbott said releasing “dangerous criminals” put the community at risk because it “slows our ability to respond to the disaster caused by COVID-19.” A state court disagreed and temporarily blocked the governor’s order. The ACLU has filed more than 30 similar lawsuits across the country.
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