COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Leaders at a Colorado Springs church said that they had the Constitutionally protected right to keep their in-person services despite a public health order, but a legal expert says that argument may not have merit. Colorado Springs Fellowship Church tells KRDO it is exercising its First Amendment right to worship and will continue holding services even though Gov. Jared Polis is banning gatherings of 10 or more people. Lamont Banks, Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Springs Fellowship, said the church was informed that a complaint was filed with the El Paso County Health Department. However, Banks told KRDO on Wednesday that the church has no received a request from the health department to stop services of limit gatherings to less than 10. KRDO asked the El Paso County Health Department about Colorado Springs Fellowship specifically, but all a spokesperson told us was that the order applies to all churches. "If there ever was a time that churches should be open it should be now. There should be a place of refuge, where people can go, and know that I feel better when I went to church," Pastor Rose Banks told […]
