The Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to prevent Kentucky’s governor from ordering religious schools to shut down in-person learning. In an unsigned opinion issued last week, the nation’s highest court said Gov. Andy Beshear’s order “effectively expires this week or shortly thereafter, and there is no indication that it will be renewed.” Danville Christian Academy, which filed the suit, argued that while Beshear’s order treated public and private schools the same, schools as a whole were treated more severely than bars, restaurants, and other entities. The institute and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said in their joint filing to the Supreme Court that the governor allowed “virtually all other in-person activities and indoor gatherings” in the state to continue, including daycares, colleges, gyms, and bowling alleys. “To summarize, in Kentucky, one can catch a matinee at the movie theater, tour a distillery, work out at the gym, bet at …