Just when I started hoping we would get through the coronavirus crisis without anyone legitimately having their First Amendment rights violated by the government, examples of such infringements started popping up around the country. To date, I’ve only counted a handful of instances, but there’s already at least one lawsuit filed charging a local government with violating the free exercise rights of a local church and church pastor in Mississippi.

Last week, several police officers stormed the site of Greenville’s Temple Baptist Church, where they were having a drive-in service and fined each person in attendance $500. Pastor Arthur Scott organized for his congregation to have a drive-in service that meant everyone stayed inside their cars with the windows rolled up while listening to the music and sermon through the radio, just like the experience of a drive-in movie theater.