re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because they’re not the same type of law: washingtonpost.com.

“These state RFRAs were enacted in response to Supreme Court decisions that had nothing to do with gay rights or same-sex marriage,” explained University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock in an e-mail. “And the state court decisions interpreting their state constitutions arose in all sorts of contexts, mostly far removed from gay rights or same-sex marriage. There were cases about Amish buggies, hunting moose for native Alaskan funeral rituals, an attempt to take a church building by eminent domain, landmark laws that prohibited churches from modifying their buildings - all sorts of diverse conflicts between religious practice and pervasive regulation.”

Most of the laws that currently exist were state extensions of the federal RFRA when the SCOTUS ruled that it didn’t apply at the state level.