Michigan mask mandates didn't violate constitutional rights of religious schools, court rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Attorneys for Lansing-based Resurrection School and its parents in October filed a lawsuit and asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order blocking mask mandate application to private schools.
45% : Among their arguments was that a mask requirement for religious school students violates their religious freedom.
44% : "First, government regulations are not neutral and generally applicable, and therefore trigger strict scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, whenever they treat any comparable secular activity more favorably than religious exercise," said the majority opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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