like-minded believers, but is so prohibited by the government, is just playing the victim card (code word for insincere). Sounds like Hillary Clinton logic--those uneducated folks clinging to their Bibles.
If we are temporarily suspending rights for the safety of the people, a case can be made to temporarily suspend the protected class rights of elderly at-risk people just as much as case can be made to temporarily suspend the protected rights of religious people.