Thanks to coronavirus, collecting the offering is tough â but cashing in your chips isnât! Thatâs the state of play in Nevada, where pastors are struggling to fill their pews under the governorâs unfair COVID rules. If you run a casino, you can pack it out. But if you want to worship God in a 1,000-seat sanctuary, you have to limit it to 50 people â or else.
Fortunately, some pastors in the state have had enough. Huddling with attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom, churches like Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain and Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley decided to sue. If people can gather to bet, they argued, then they should be able to gather to pray. And at oral arguments in the Ninth Circuit Court Tuesday, three judges seemed inclined to agree.