The pastor of a rural church in Greenville, Miss., filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday that claims its constitutional rights were violated when local police broke up a “drive-in” church service and issued $500 tickets to attendees.
The city’s April 7 executive order bans in-person and drive-in church services in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. It was used the next day to disperse a Wednesday-night service in Temple Baptist Church’s parking lot, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
Temple Baptist said the move ran afoul of ...
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