opportunity to talk toou about that decision. as you know, in rifra the reyinlg lus freedom restoration act congress was dissafed under the first amendment to maryland justice scalia said any neutral law of general applicability is fine. that s, doesn t offend the first amendment. so laws banning the use of peyote, native americans, tough luck, even though it s essential to their religious exercise, for example. this congress decided that that was insufficient protection for religion, and in a bill sponsored by senator hatch, senator kennedy, senator schumer, when he was in the house, wrote a very, very strict law, and it says that any sincerely held religious belief
aopportunity to talk to you about that decision. as you know in rifra, the religious freedom restoration act, congress was dissatisfied with a level of protection afforded by the supreme court under the first amendment to religious exercise. the court in a case called smith versus maryland written by justice scalia said any neutral law of general applicability is fine. that doesn t offend the first amendment. laws banning the use of paoti, native americans, tough luck. even though it s essential to their religious exercise, for example. this congress decided that that was insufficient protection for religion and in a bill sponsored by senator hatch, senator kennedy, senator schumer when he was in it the house wrote a very, very strict it says any sin seerply held religious
piece written by eric, erickson. let s take a look at that comment that came out on friday. it says what is so tragic about the huntsman race is he has the boldest free market economic recovery plan, the most prolive record of anyone in the race other than rick perry and the best jobs creation record of anyone in the race with the possible exception of rick perry, and he has runaway from that to be the guy who doesn t offend the women on the view. what do you think? that is one person s point of view. we are moving up in new hampshire and i think that says everything you need to know. our message is resonating with the voters in that very important early primary state. people are coming around and giving us a second look, and i think that is important. they may not have seen the first go around, they dismissed us because we put country first. i served as u.s. ambassador to china at a time when people probably thought you shouldn t