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Senators stall bill prohibiting emergency rules on churches

| October 21, 2020 4:27 PM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A proposal to keep Louisiana's emergency orders from governing churches and to upend prosecution of a pastor who violated Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus restrictions was narrowly shelved Wednesday by state senators.

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