Just days after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against New York State’s COVID-19 restrictions on religious services, a Christian school in Kentucky is asking SCOTUS if it can reopen, too. Danville Christian Academy, joined by Kentucky’s Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron , sued the state’s Democratic Governor Andy Beshear . After Beshear prevailed in his attempt to have the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit set aside the lower court’s injunction against the restrictions, the school filed an emergency petition with SCOTUS. Beshear issued an order on Nov. 18 which closed all “public and private elementary, middle, and high schools.” Later the same day, a second order came down, which allowed other in-person activities and gatherings – such as day care centers, preschools, colleges, theaters, gyms, bowling alleys, wedding venues and offices – to stay open, but with capacity limits. The school, which is a private K-12 school with 234 students, challenged Beshear’s order in federal court, arguing that the restrictions violated the free exercise clause and amounted to an unconstitutional restraint on religion. The petition pointed out arguable inconsistency in Beshear’s restrictions, writing: “to summarize, in Kentucky, one can catch a matinee […]
