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LOYALTY FIRST _REWARD

RFRA, RLPA,
WFRA: OK?

RFRA is being replaced with RLPA,
which is not the same as WFRA.
That may be a little hard to keep
straight in the days ahead as Congress
'moves on from the defeated Religious
Freedom/school prayer amendment to
the Constitution to a measure Jewish
D.
groups unanimously agree really will
enhance religious liberty — the Reli-
gious Liberty Protection Act, or RLPA
for short.
RLPA is the congressional fix for
RFRA — the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act, passed in 1993 and
overturned by the Supreme Court last
year because the justices felt Congress
was usurping powers that belong to the
states.
The new RLPA is a much narrower
bill aimed at preventing governments
from using public money to interfere
with religious practices, a legislative
gambit designed to help the measure
pass judicial scrutiny.
RLPA will combat threats to reli-
gious liberty posed by government
bureaucracies that "enforce rules blindly,
without consideration of the impact
those rules have for religious practice,"
said Marc D. Stem, co-director of the
American Jewish Congress Commission
on Law and Social Action and a key
drafter of the measure.
Answering critics of the original
RFRA, Stern said the measure will not
allow drug use or child abuse in the
name of religious freedom, or grant
prison inmates privileges that will com-
promise security. The overturned RFRA
was opposed by prison officials, and the
original bill stemmed from a Supreme
Court decision in the so-called "peyote"
case, involving claims by a native Amer-
ican that his religion required the use of
the hallucinogenic drug.
Lead sponsors for RLPA are Rep.
Charles
Canady, R-Fla., Rep. Jerrold
(\=
Nadler, D-N.Y., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-
Utah, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
D-Mass. The legislation was introduced
in both Houses this week, although
nobody expects it will get very far in a
Congress that's already racing for an
early election-year adjournment.
And what about WRFA?
The Workplace Religious Freedom
Act, which would make it easier for
Sabbath observers and others to fulfill
their religious obligations without los-
ing their jobs, also has been introduced
in both Houses, but so far it's gone
nowhere.
The problem?
"People are still trying to deal with

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