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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 15, 2023

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I want to know if Kentucky’s RFRA has been used for anything other than defending Christian practice. Or even that.

It's been cited for everything from COVID closures to the Kim Davis gay marriage case to abortion, though I don't think any have been productive. Baker v Hands On Original was more of a first amendment case than RFRA-specific, but it did cite the state RFRA at length, so that's one successful use.

That said, the law was motivated in part by a Gingerich v Commonwealth, a case about Amish rejection of road safety signage, which... is not at least the typical things people think of as Christian religious practice.