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After the supreme court ruled that members of the Native American church are not titled to an exemption from drug laws to use peyote in sacred rites, congress disagreed. It passed the religious freedom Restoration Act, which says “the federal government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.” The “Obama Administrations Mandate” that employers provide tending coverage in employee health insurance provoked a lawsuit form Hobby Lobby, whose owners objected on religious grounds and prevailed in the supreme court. Applying the first amendment guarantee of freedom of religion to an ever changing world is a job that will never be fully done but on the equal protection

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