wfn.org | Kirkpatrick Responds to Supreme Court's Rejection of RFRA

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9-July-1997 
97265 
 
    Kirkpatrick Responds to Supreme Court's 
    Rejection of RFRA 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, stated clerk of the 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), who has worked on the issue of religious 
liberty, expressed "deep disappointment" over the the U.S. Supreme Court's 
decision to strike down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). 
 
    Saying that RFRA was adopted to restore, legislatively, protection of 
religious expression that had been restricted by another court decision, 
"Oregon v. Smith," Kirkpatrick said the court's RFRA decision "puts 
religious groups and individuals once again at risk and makes it imperative 
that religious people of every faith band together to address this 
situation." 
 
    He pledged that "the offices of the General Assembly and the General 
Assembly Council will now join with others in the religious community to 
find effective ways to respond to this most recent assault on religious 
liberty." 

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