# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2045
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/2045 "2020-11-27T23:58:35Z")
> [@Supreme Court: Religious Freedom More Important than Fighting Covid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supreme-court-religious-freedom-more-important-than-fighting-covid/926466/1): > > "The Supreme Court placed religious freedom before pandemic precautions Wednesday night, temporarily blocking recent rules in New York that severely restricted gatherings at houses of worship in areas hit hardest by COVID-19. The court’s new, more conservative majority ruled 5-4 that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s limits on churches, synagogues and other houses of worship to 10 or 25 worshipers in hard-hit regions appeared to violate the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. … One logical disconnect between this ruling and the Constitution is that the Constitution says nothing about the “free exercise” of religion, which Amendment 1 says cannot be prohibited, _depending on the ability to gather._ And it certainly says nothing about the free exercise of religion depending on gathering in particular numbers. If the New York prohibitions at issue prevented people from gathering online, for example, that might reasonably be tied with an unconstitutional ban on a free exercise of religion. But no such ban was instituted in New York. I guess I need to go to the other thread----but this SCOTUS decision seems to me to be so wildly wrongly-decided, that it makes me feel Pit-y. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140)._