Secondly, many churches are registered as Public Benefit Organizations and thus duly pay relevant taxes. Thirdly, churches are places of employment directly employing staff and through the many external service providers they engage.
We are happy that churches once again have the right to choose whether they want to open or not. Nobody is forcing churches to open or congregants to attend. We respect every church leaders decision to open or not, and every congregants decision to attend or not.