Life Hangs in the Balance: Weighing Coronavirus Church Closings Against the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • On March 27, the Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group unanimously issued an order restricting the gatherings of non-essential businesses and services. The Rev. Rodney Howard-Browne responded that he would only cancel church services for the Rapture and that pastors who canceled services were pansies. After holding church services on March 29, Howard-Browne was arrested for unlawful assembly and violating the public health emergency order. This paper analyzes how Florida's strict RFRA statute would likely apply to such an act.

published proceedings

  • SSRN Electronic Journal

author list (cited authors)

  • Conklin, M.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Conklin, Michael

publication date

  • 2020