It’s uncharitable and probably ultimately incorrect to posit anti-religious bigotry behind the state and local government actions cracking down on the exercise of religion. Instead, we should point to the irrationality behind those rules.

After Maryland’s governor recently lifted rules that banned church services for the past 10 weeks, Howard County, a wealthy county near D.C., published rules that were clearly written to ban Holy Communion in Catholic Masses.

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