One of the biggest church attendance days of the year, Easter, is just around the corner. Combine that with some lawmakers’ concerns about constitutional protections of religious freedom and there’s now a fight at the statehouse over whether Kansas can ban church gatherings of more than 10 people.
It’s a fight Sedgwick County leaders see as partisan bickering that does not apply in their county.
“I don’t think there’s a Democrat virus and a Republican virus,” said Pete Meitzner, chair of the Sedgwick County Commission, at a news briefing Thursday morning. “But it kind of gets that way a little bit federally and, obviously, at the state level. And we’re just trying to do what’s reasonable.”
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