Prayer services were held in a Las Vegas casino to get around coronavirus restrictions on churches in Nevada.
On Thursday, Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, shared a video on Twitter of a gathering of Evangelicals for Trump at a prayer and praise event in an unidentified casino.
He tweeted: “Packed house at #EvangelicalsForTrump prayer & praise event in Las Vegas, NV. Governor banned church services but casinos can operate at 50% capacity. So we are praying in a casino.”
Churches in Nevada currently have a 50-person limit on attendance at services. Casinos can operate at half of their fire-code capacity limits, which can be much higher than 50 people, with appropriate social distancing.
Last month, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court’s liberals in a 5-4 vote against Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, a Reno-area church that said the state was discriminating by imposing stricter requirements on church services than on the state’s casinos.
Vice President Mike Pence later said Roberts is a “disappointment to conservatives” because of the rulings he has issued.
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