After being bullying by dictator governor Andrew Cuomo, Catholics and Jews and breathe a sigh of relief. The Supreme Court decided today in a 5-4 ruling that the governor/state cannot impose restrictions on religious communities.
The decision comes after a battle regarding Church and State. While the Constitution explicitly states that the government cannot infringe on the rights of religion, many liberal governors took on powers they did not have in order to do just that. They imposed restriction on Churches and Synagogues during the first wave of Covid-19 Coronavirus threatening bishops and religious leaders with fines and other penalties if they did not comply with closures and other demands.
At first, bishops complied in a good faith spirit of maintaining the common good and protecting others; however, once it became obvious that the Church was targeted when stores like Target, liquor stores and protests were allowed gather, the bishops woke up and sued. They were joined by Jewish leaders who also were targeted by Cuomo and May Di Blasio.
The justices opined, “Even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten...The restrictions at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending religious services, strike at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty.”
This has been my view since the alleged pandemic took hold here in New York City. The restrictions the government was placing on religious communities raised eyebows. It seemed as if the Constitution did not matter. The government cannot tell religious institutions what to do and vice-verse. This is what the Constitution clearly states. It was disturbing to see some Catholics on social media attack Catholics who held this Constitutional view.
Despite science showing that the Mass has never been a conduit for the spread of disease, the government insisted churches and religious gathers were unsafe. The fact that liquor stores, Target and protesting rioters were allowed to gather without restriction made it clear that the state was simply bullying religious institutions. To what ends, no one can know for sure. However, the agenda seems sinister.
St. Pope Piux X gave us a clear warning decades ago about allowing the State to control the Mass and Sacraments. He wrote in the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis:
We can never let the State tell us how to run the Church. This is a huge no-no under the United States Constitution. Virus or no virus, pandemic or no pandemic, this cannot be allowed. Religious freedom is engraved into the Constitution. The fact that liquors stores, Target and rioters were allowed to reign free while Churches were forced to shut down is an affront to the Constitution. It is a disrespect to religion, our Founders and Science. As stated before, there is not scientific evidence that the Catholic Mass or Holy Communion is a conduit for any disease. While some priests, nuns and lay people have gotten covid-19, this was in activities outside of the liturgy and Catholic parish.
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Source:
https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-rules-against-ny-052246804.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/26/politics/supreme-court-religious-restrictions-ruling-covid/index.html
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