article_snippet.sent: These are the reasons why the federal RFRA was passed in 1993, and why the federal RFRA had bipartisan support.
article_snippet.sent: Writing for the Seventh Circuit panel in 2014, Judge Richard Posner's rationale in the case of Baskin v. Bogan provides the obvious answer for how to fix the RFRA deficiency without changing what it is that the RFRA deficiency defends.
article_snippet.sent: Courts have long held that a religious exemption cannot be granted if the RFRA deficiency allows you to shift the harm to a third party, and -- as Judge Richard Posner explained so simply -- discrimination is harmful.
article_snippet.sent: RFRAs are not inherently evil.
article_snippet.sent: The principles of RFRA can remain unchanged; The principles of RFRA is just the definition of harmful that evolves.