Coronavirus. Prohibited Prayer and the Limits of Public Health Authority The Supreme Court reaffirms that COVID-19 regulations must comply with the First Amendment.

Community member Howard Duncan, who welcomed people into the church, encourages people to “pray much.” “We believe there is prayer for those who are in authority, prayer for the nation.

But lawyers who had argued against organized prayer on school grounds said the practice tends to become coercive, and exclusionary, when it is led by coaches and other authority figures.