US fifth Circuit: "The First Modification doesn’t permit our leaders to resolve which rights to honor and which to disregard." (my title)

For individuals of religion demoralized by coercive shutdown insurance policies, that raises a query: If officers at the moment are exempting protesters, how can they justify persevering with to limit worshippers? The reply is that they will’t. Authorities doesn’t have carte blanche, even in a pandemic, to choose and select which First Modification rights are “open” and which stay “closed.” As a substitute, legal guidelines that burden faith whereas exempting the non-religious should move strict scrutiny. SeeChurch of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Metropolis of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520, 546 (1993). The burden on faith “have to be justified by a compelling governmental curiosity,” and the…