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The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday weighed in on the potential imposition on religious rights caused by COVID-19 state shutdown orders, siding with a Mississippi church that sued the city of Greenville.
A Virginia pastor who defied warnings about the danger of religious gatherings during the pandemic and vowed to keep preaching "unless I'm in jail or the hospital" died over the weekend after contracting Covid-19, his church said.
'The Covid-19 pandemic serves to remind us that secularism is a vital ingredient of democracy and that it means not just separation of religion from the state but also subordination of religion to the state in matters temporal.'
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