Chaka Fattah said "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?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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?

Said by

Chaka Fattah

Pennsylvania

Source

govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

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

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