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Article: Religious liberty: Supreme Court agrees to consider federal religious liberty law.
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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When President Bill Clinton signed the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) in 2000, he issued a ringing endorsement of the principle undergirding the bill.
"Religious liberty," he said, "is a constitutional value of the highest order, and the Framers of the Constitution included protection for the free exercise of religion in the very first amendment. This act recognizes the importance the flee exercise of religion plays in our democratic society."
Now, just over lout years later, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether that federal religious liberty law is constitutional.
In October, the justices took for ...