Conservatives are crowing over this as an own the libs moment, denying that many who support public health restrictions are people of faith. This broke long standing precedent, so don't at me with your calls for originalism etc. This is just know-nothing politics by other means. https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1331946867035398145

It will also put congregants at risk. Those religious groups who sought relief for the right to worship now must assume the responsibility for the fate of those who fill their houses of worship in a pandemic. This is their burden now. Each needless infection. Each death.

And the phrase "do unto others," now takes on an epidemiological significance. People in close quarters, singing together, whether it is a choir or a religious service have been the source of outbreaks here and around the world.

I pray that religious leaders will put the health of their congregations, communities ahead of their desire to play out the culture wars on the back of those they serve. The god's honest truth is that in settings of high community spread, large indoor gatherings are not safe.

For those who decide to bring large number of people into an indoor setting, I hope that masks will be required, some attempt at social distancing would be attempted, windows would be open, and singing replaced by instrumental music. No one deserves to forced to be a martyr.

One day, we'll look at the way religion is deployed in public life as a weapon as #SCOTUS has done today. Not in service of god or people, but in service of ideology. Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, Thomas & Kavanaugh worship at the temple of the Federalist Society and its ilk.

Religion is a tool for them to attack the state, its powers in a libertarian-right agenda. The @GOP and its appointees gave us Trump, and now this court, that imperils human lives, in a pandemic.