Chaka Fattah: “All of the lawsuits on this matter, or at least the vast majority…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 2003

All of the lawsuits on this matter, or at least the vast majority, have been about the Federal prison system, in which the courts have been, I would say, very lenient in determining what is a religion, and all manner of groups with any number of, I think, what most of us would consider problematic beliefs have been determined to be religions for purposes under the definition by the Federal courts. So would that be the same in terms of how this would operate?

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Chaka Fattah

Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of court definitions of religion in the Federal prison system.

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