Here's How COVID-19 Restrictions Curb Religious Freedom

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Exactly how have COVID-19 restrictions on churches and other places of worship affected First Amendment freedoms?

What happened when the Supreme Court last week blocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's limits on religious gatherings?

What about the situation in California, where Godspeak Calvary Chapel's pastor, Rob McCoy, reportedly turned his church into a "strip club" so it could stay open?

Zack Smith, a legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss these angles and more.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Single Podcast for Friday, December 4th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.0	And I'm Rachel Del Judas. How have COVID-19 restrictions on churches specifically affected First Amendment freedoms?
0:17.0	Have churches been treated differently and more unfairly than businesses and other institutions?
0:22.0	Zach Smith, a legal fellow in the Mees Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage
0:26.5	Foundation, joins me today on the Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.
0:30.6	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star reading on Apple
0:36.6	Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:39.7	Now, on to our top news. President Trump criticized Attorney General Bill Barr for saying that he has not uncovered evidence of
0:54.8	widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. On Tuesday, Barr told
1:00.7	the Associated Press to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election
1:08.5	Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that bar hadn't done anything so he hadn't looked on the Georgia. They are going through hearings right now in Georgia and they are
1:24.4	finding tremendous volumes. So they haven't looked very hard, which is a
1:28.8	disappointment to be honest with you because it's massive fraud.
1:33.5	Following Barr's remarks to the Associated Press,
1:36.1	the President's lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis,
1:39.2	issued a statement saying,
1:40.9	with the greatest respect to the attorney general his opinion appears to be without any knowledge
1:46.1	or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud.
1:52.2	President Trump's still to repeal Section 230, even though some Republicans aren't keen on doing so.
1:58.0	On Thursday, Trump tweeted,
2:00.0	looks like certain Republican senators are getting cold feet with respect to the termination of big tax section 230
2:06.0	a national security and election integrity must for years all talk no action
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