If the state can forbid its exercise, it is not a right //

None of this is benign. If religious services can be shut down for the fanciful fear of some viral outbreak and religious practices modified by executive fiat, then religious freedom ceases to exist. Had this regime been in effect during the Jim Crow era, black churches would have been ordered shut for fear of violence…a fear much more founded in reality than our current panic over Wuhan virus.