"According to his lawyer at Liberty Counsel, Browne was following the CDC guidelines. The church held services in a large auditorium, abiding by the six-foot distancing rule. "The church spent $100,000 on a hospital-grade purification system set up throughout the church that provide[s] continuous infectious microbial reduction that is rated to kill microbes, including those in the coronavirus family," wrote Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel.
Staver notes that the Tampa order "has 42 paragraphs of exceptions, and another paragraph that further exempts any business that can comply with a six-foot separation."
