On November 25, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in favor of religious freedom. The act barred New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s restrictions on worship services in the name of COVID-19 prevention. The Thomas More Society has been fighting these coronavirus-prompted religious violations across the nation, including an ongoing lawsuit against Cuomo on behalf of Catholic and Orthodox Jewish worshippers in New York.
The opinion read, “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.”
