Keeping opioid addicts from dying is possibly a protected religious activity, a federal appeals court has ruled in the case of a Philadelphia group that encourages supervised drug use.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on July 24 stopped the Department of Justice from arguing the nonprofit Safehouse is not protected under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act because its corporate documents do not bind it to a religious purpose.
Safehouse, for its part, argued keeping people alive is a big part of religious principles. The U.S. Supreme Court held in 2014 corporations like Hobby Lobby could be exempt from a requirement to provide certain forms of contraception based on religious beliefs.
“The district court thus erred in determining Safehouse can never qualify for the protections of (the Religious Freedom Restoration Act) because it is a non-religious entity,” Third Circuit judge David Porter wrote.
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Author: Faith Novak
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