article_snippet.sent: Not all people who dislike the law hate religion, and not all people who like the law want to discriminate against the LGBT community.
article_snippet.sent: Sometimes, a law seems to impose only modest burdens on the people a law affects, but in practice a law actually severely burdens the religious practices of a few.
article_snippet.sent: In those situations, if there is no compelling governmental interest in enforcing a law in that particularly burdensome way -- and if no one else is harmed -- then religion should be granted an exemption.
article_snippet.sent: Shifting the burden to the government to prove that the government really does need to apply a law in this particular way will not allow every person to become a law unto themselves; a law simply sends the message that religion is important, and unless there are specific and compelling reasons why, people should be allowed to practice as people need.