Title: How the Hobby Lobby ruling helped and hurt religious freedom - Deseret News
Headings: How the Hobby Lobby ruling helped and hurt religious freedom
How the Hobby Lobby ruling helped and hurt religious freedom
The Hobby Lobby case
Controversial ruling
After Hobby Lobby
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Content: The Hobby Lobby case, like this week's congressional hearing, centered on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which helps judges apply the religious freedom protections offered by the First Amendment. It creates a balancing test between the religious interests of individual Americans and the government's policy goals. In cases involving the act, individuals must show they have a sincerely held belief that's been burdened by government action. If they do, the government has to prove it has a compelling reason to enact the policy and has no better way to achieve the desired outcome. Controversial ruling
Demonstrator react to hearing the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby case outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women. Religious freedom protections continue to be a hot topic five years later. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Associated Press
Although the Religious Freedom Restoration Act received widespread support when it passed in 1993, it's become increasingly controversial. Legal experts often clash over how it's applied, and the Hobby Lobby case was no exception. The biggest sticking point in the case was whether a for-profit corporation is covered by religious freedom protections.