I have to take issue with your contention that they're smart, unless you mean they're wily and playing the long game to upset the new administration. If they are smart, as in, intelligent, why would they ignore CDC and WHO guidelines and side with people who want to gather and make superspreader events rather than say, worship at home people and stay safe? This isn't, or shouldn't be, seen as an attack on the right of people to practice their religion, just the right to practice it where it will cause harm.
We had something similar here in good old Catholic Ireland recently, but it was vague mutterings; the government can't be overruled by the courts so far as I know, unlike your US version, and everyone just had to accept it, mostly because it ****ing made sense. Who was it said that God is everywhere? If you believe that, then why does it matter where you worship or how?
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