Religious Freedom Advocate Celebrates Big Wins for Constitutional Rights at Pandemic’s 1st Anniversary

Louisville City Hall in Louisville, Ky., on May 9, 2007. In an important court decision in April 2020, the mayor's banning of church services due to the pandemic was found unconstitutional. Bedford at English Wikipedia/Public Domain

When U.S. District Court Judge Justin Walker issued his April 11, 2020, decision granting a temporary injunction sought by the On Fire Christian Center against Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor Greg Fischer, it was clear he wasn’t happy with city officials.

“On Holy Thursday, an American mayor criminalized the communal celebration of Easter. That sentence is one that this Court never expected to see outside the pages of a dystopian novel, or perhaps the pages of The Onion,” Walker said.