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Religious Freedom Act should be opposed as a back-door Bill of Rights : Comments
By Lorraine Finlay, published 6/8/2018The problem in this case is that a Religious Freedom Act could ultimately be used, paradoxically, to undermine the very freedoms it is meant to protect.
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In the US there have been dozens, if not hundreds, of Supreme Court cases about what the religious freedom part of their constitution means. The concept of religious freedom is meaningless, which is why all it really means is more money for lawyers.
There is no such thing as religious freedom. There is no such thing as freedom of speech. Only freedom subject to law, i.e. subject to the many statutory and common law restrictions on speech and religion that already rightly exist.