In the more than two decades since RFRA’s passage, however, the law has too frequently been misused and misinterpreted as a sword to harm others, rather than as a shield to protect religious liberty. In particular, some ne’er-do-wells have tried to manipulate RFRA into a tool that allows them ignore non-discrimination laws.
At Americans United we are fighting this distortion of the idea religious liberty by encouraging states not to adopt new RFRAs unless they contain provisions ensuring that they can’t be used to discriminate and supporting the Do No Harm Act, which clarifies that the federal RFRA protects religious liberty but cannot be used to harm others.
Unfortunately, in a decision that is as broad as it is troubling, a federal court, for the first time, ruled yesterday that RFRA not only allows harm to third parties but even allows employers to use religion as a justification for violating federal civil-rights laws...
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/a-religious-right-to-discriminate-court-adopts-troubling-interpretation-of
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