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customerserviceguy

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11. I figured that's because

Reply to PoliticAverse (Reply #10)

Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:58 PM

Jun 2014

we already had the First Amendment that applied to the states, and the RFRA holds the Federal government to a much stricter standard. Today was really the first test of what that meant.

In any case, RFRA is not going to be amended, and it's clearly not going to be struck down by the SCOTUS.

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I figured that's because customerserviceguy Jun 2014 #11

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