Minersville vs Gobitis
Number of years it took to overturn the Supreme Courts ruling
What is 3 years
The ruling of a homosexual suing a church for being fired after Smith Decision
What is in favor of homosexual
RFRA stands for this
What is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The defendants in the Smith case
Who were two drug counselors
The type of equivalents there are to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
What are State Level equivalents
The group of people who refused to participate in the school flag ceremony.
Who are Jehovah's witness
This clause would no longer help a pastor arrested for serving alcohol to minors
All of these were represented in the RFRA committee
What are Religions
The judge who ruled free exercise of religion couldn't be used to challenge constitutionality of a neutral law
Who is Judge Scalia
This is the theory that blends free exercise claims with other constitutional claims
What is the Hybrid rights theory
The consequence to the kids who didn't participate in the flag ceremony.
What is being expelled
Free exercise of religion cases are now lost if the statute in question is neutral and general and not aimed at this.
What is religion
RFRA established this test to be used when the Federal Government violated religious freedoms
What is the Sherbert Test
The ruling the Supreme Court ruled in the Smith case
What was against the drug counselors
A strategy that does not join free exercise claims with another constitutional claim but makes the other claim exclusively
What are Alternative claims
The ruling for the Gobitis case at the State level
What is in favor of Gobitis
Churches Cannot ask for a constitutionally based what from a neutral and general law they have an issue with.
What is a relgious exemption
RFRA allowed these from laws that were general and neutral
What are religious exemptions
The case referenced in the Smith ruling about Jehovah witnesses not participating in the flag ceremony
What is the Gobitis case
Another way we can protect our religious freedoms under the current state of the law is to use these offered by state constitutions.
What are protections
The result when the Supreme court overturned the State's ruling 8-1
What is violence towards Jehovah Witnesses
We should not have to depend on state legislature changing what to protect our religious freedoms
What are laws
The reason the Supreme Court ruled RFRA unconstitutional in 1997
What is Congress has no authority to interpret constitution Different from Supreme Court
The case the Supreme Court later used to counter the Gobitis case that Scalia said was exclusively about freedom of Speech
What is the Barnette case
The RFRA can be used at this level since it had been declared unconstitutional only as applied to this other level.
What is the Federal and then State levels