Religious exemptions and sex with 16-year-old

Volokh, Eugene VOLOKH at law.ucla.edu
Wed Aug 6 19:34:47 PDT 2008


Marci Hamilton writes:

> I would assume that rfra does not undermine neutral, generally
applicable felonies.  

        I'm confused -- I thought it was clear that the purpose of RFRA
(rightly or wrongly) was precisely to authorize some claims of
exemptions from generally applicable laws, including criminal laws.
When strict scrutiny would be satisfied is hard to tell, but what basis
is there to say that it would be satisfied for every felony?

	Eugene


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