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Do the government’s COVID-19 church restrictions violate the First Amendment?

July 10, 2020 · 4 min read

In 1962, the United States Supreme Court decided in the case of Engel v. Vitale that a prayer approved for use in schools was a violation of the First Amendment, because it constituted an establishment of religion.

The next year, the Court voted in the case of Abington School District v. Schempp to disallow daily Bible readings because they violated the …