[Genuine Realist]

The question is what happens if you designate some activities as essential. If churches are not considered essential, then you could see a situation arise where there is a lawsuit challenging the designation of religious services as nonessential.

BC

Essential doesn't mean crazy. Even in the early days, you went to grocery stores with appropriate caution. There's no respectable liturgy that can't be modified to the circumstances. The Mass has been said in all sorts of unlikely places and circumstances. Zoom isn't that big a departure.

That said, you DO keep churches open.

[Genuine Realist]

The question is what happens if you designate some activities as essential. If churches are not considered essential, then you could see a situation arise where there is a lawsuit challenging the designation of religious services as nonessential.

BC

Essential doesn't mean crazy. Even in the early days, you went to grocery stores with appropriate caution. There's no respectable liturgy that can't be modified to the circumstances. The Mass has been said in all sorts of unlikely places and circumstances. Zoom isn't that big a departure.

That said, you DO keep churches open.