I'm Shane Morris with the Colson Center for Christian World View. Does the government have the

constitutional power to suspend church services? How about socially distanced prayer outside of abortion clinics?

What do Christians need to know about their rights during a national crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic?

Today on the Breakpoint podcast, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Vice President, Kristen Wagoner,

joins John Stone Street to answer these questions and more.

Wagoner is one of America's leading attorneys on religious freedom.

You may recall that she successfully represented

masterpiece cake shop owner Jack Phillips before the Supreme Court.

Here's John Stone Street with our Breakpoint podcast guest, Kristen Wagoner.

Well, welcome to the Breakpoint podcast.

We have gotten so many questions, and we have asked so many questions within the

Colson Center about this unique time in history and how it might relate to religious freedom.

So last week, we kind of all saw a headline in America, which we didn't expect to see

in our lifetime, and we certainly didn't expect that maybe this would be the thing that

would set off such a headline where a Florida megachurch

pastor decided to hold services in opposition to the suggestions of the state of Florida and was

arrested. So here we have a headline pastor arrested. And we've got so many different parts of this,

number one, the wisdom of a decision like this

pastor made, and then also what sort of opportunism does this provide to the state and this

continual dance between where the state stops and the civil society, in particular

citizens and religious institutions begin.

It's been a dance that our country has had for a really long time, and at times like these,

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