A Supreme Court decision in 1990 severely curtailed the priority of religious freedom over other federal laws. In Employment Division v. Smith, the Supreme Court ruled that people must comply with “neutral, generally applicable regulatory law” even if the law incidentally burdens their exercise of religion. Laws cannot single out religious groups, but religious people cannot claim a right to be exempt from a law that applies equally to them and everybody else.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:22:12 +0000
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