This book should be
used by anyone with an interest in religious freedom questions, issues in
corporate personality, and LGBT rights. This book compiles all current state
religious freedom acts. A table of documents lists where legislative intent or
other legislative history materials may be found (though admittedly, there are
not many). The editor notes where acts failed to pass and provides a
bibliography that will be helpful for general research.
Recent interest in religious
freedom restoration laws has its origins in the early 1990s with the passage of
the federal Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. After the Supreme Court in 1997
found that the Act applied only to the federal government in City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507
(1997), states began adopting these types of laws. Interest in this matter has
skyrocketed since Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
Stores, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2751 (2014), in which the Supreme Court held that
a for-profit corporation could hold religious beliefs. More recently, these
acts have made headlines in relation to LGBT issues and the inclusion of
same-sex couples in the right to marry in the wake of Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015).
State Religious Freedom Restoration Acts: A
Compilation of Enacted and Recently Proposed Legislation (William H.
Manz ed., 2015). KF 4783 .Z95 S73
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