Alison, Rebecca and Monica discuss another tool in our kit to keep religion and government separate: legislative advocacy. Alison, as our resident policy expert, guides us through the many bills that threaten church/state separation wending their ways through state legislatures this year.

Background

• Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA)
• BlitzWatch

Relevant Cases

• Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
• Tandon v. Newsom (2021)
• Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)
• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

 

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