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Andy Meek
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- A Mississippi church burning this week served as the latest flashpoint as coronavirus-related restrictions on gatherings around the country continue to generate extreme reactions and protests.
- Local officials in Holly Springs, Mississippi, suspect the church burning was the work of an arsonist.
- President Trump on Friday called for churches to be allowed to reopen immediately.
The smoldering embers left from a small-town Mississippi church fire this week -- which authorities believe was the work of an arsonist due to parking lot graffiti that read: "Bet you stay home now you hypokrits" -- comprise one of the starkest examples to date of how coronavirus-related strictures are prompting outlandish reactions in opposition to them.
The First Pentecostal Church in Holly Springs was burned down on Wednesday, about a month after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the church against the coronavirus-related restrictions on large gatherings in the city. “We’ve kind of racked our brains and we have no idea,” church pastor Jerry Waldrop told reporters. “No enemies that we know of. We don’t know anyone that we even think could be capable of doing something like this.”
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