; or (2) for claims against a religious organization, including any religiously affiliated school or institution of higher education, not acting under color of law. (c) Claims to funding unaffected Nothing in this Act shall create or preclude a right of any religious organization to receive funding or other assistance from a government, or of any person to receive government funding for a religious activity, but this Act may require a government to incur expenses in its own operations to avoid imposing a substantial burden on religious exercise. (d) Governmental discretion in alleviating burdens on religious exercise A government may avoid the preemptive force of any provision of this Act by changing the policy or practice that results in a substantial burden on religious exercise, by retaining the policy or practice and exempting the substantially burdened religious exercise, by providing exemptions from the policy or practice for applications that substantially burden religious exercise, or by any other means that eliminates the substantial burden. (e) Effect on other law With respect to a claim brought under this Act, proof that a substantial burden on a person’s religious exercise affects, or removal of that burden would affect, commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, or with Indian Tribes, shall not establish any inference or presumption that any religious exercise is, or is not, subject to any law other than this Act. (f) Broad construction This Act shall be construed in favor of a broad protection of religious exercise, to the maximum extent permitted by the terms of this Act and the Constitution. (g) No preemption or repeal Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preempt State law, or repeal Federal law, that is equally as protective of religious exercise as, or more protective of religious exercise than, this Act. (h) Severability If any provision of this Act or an amendment made by this Act, or any application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be