United States: "Maryland county bans Eucharist in church reopening order." Consumption of food in any religious service banned

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I don’t see this going well for the government of Maryland. It will be challenged as a First Amendment violation.
 
Kind of ironic as Mary - land was founded as a Catholic colony.
 
Howard Country is part of the seventh congressional district… the late Mr Elijah Cummings’ constituents.

I wish the Archdiocese had made a more strongly worded statement against this order. “Serious concern” doesn’t quite rise to the occasion.
 
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Howard Country is part of the seventh congressional district… the late Mr Elijah Cummings’ constituents.
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As someone who used to live in HoCo for many years, this has nothing to do with Cummings (or Mfume either). Many of those “constituents” you speak of go to church and some of them even go to the Catholic Church; the county is 20 percent Catholic and I have not run into any anti-Catholic sentiment. It is highly likely that whoever drafted the order simply didn’t have their thinking cap on and forgot, until no doubt they were reminded by Archbishop Lori and his team, that Catholics have Holy Communion at Mass every week and it’s not an optional part of our religious services. It’s fixed now, so crisis averted.

As has been pointed out, an order prohibiting Holy Communion would have been a blatant violation of the Constitution and would have quickly gotten a smackdown in court anyway. Especially in a place like HoCo which has a significant number of well-off lawyers, many of whom commute to DC for work, living there.
 
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No. A government would never do this in the USA. Carry on people. Virus, for the good of the public etc.
my fear is that a weak response may have helped get this lifted before it went into effect. A strong response might have kept it from happening to others in the future. Either way, the state has become something to be feared in the USA. I never thought the whackos were right. But they were.
 
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