Are they just too dim and selfish to look at a broader view?
As usual, the religious group seems to have good intentions but can't hold back from screwing things up with their biases of how they think it should be.

I only took quotes from Carrol. I wonder how representative he is of the group.
From the link:

"Our churches are part of the answer, not part of the problem,” Water of Life Community Church senior pastor Danny Carroll said. “We're an essential part of this whole journey and we've been bypassed ... kicked to the curb and deemed nonessential."

Such a rationale does not seem, for some, to have taken the sting out of government officials classifying religious centers no differently than sporting stadiums and retail locations.

"We are not the MLB or the NBA,” Carroll said. “We are not a gathering of strangers. As pastors, we bury these people. We bleed with these people."

"We are a family, not a group of strangers."