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Article: Supreme Faith.(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 28, 1997
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The Supreme Court has drawn mixed reviews for striking down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Richard John Neuhaus sees the Court's action as a threat to religious liberty; George Will saw the law itself as a threat to the Constitution.
The law was a response to an earlier Supreme Court decision on the issue of whether the free exercise of religion exempts believers from laws that burden their faiths. The Court held that such exemptions need not be granted. The bi-partisan uproar that ensued led to RFRA, which restored exemptions based on faith--so that, for instance, anti-drug laws would not punish the Native American Church for sacramental use of peyote.
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