LRRP In the Media
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“There’s a distinction between a neutral noise ordinance and a law that is intentionally crafted to suppress a particular religious exercise or religious community.”
– Elizabeth Reiner Platt
“Texas lawmakers brainstorm anti-Muslim laws at Faith Fest” / Adrian Ashford, Houston Chronicle
October 1, 2026
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“Religious liberty rights protect both orthodox and unconventional believers.”
– Dr. Christine Ryan
“Religious Freedom for All on Trial as Abortion Ban Case Begins” / Mary Anne Pazanowski, Bloomberg Law
September 9, 2026
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“I think the reality is we’re not going to litigate our way out of the [Trump] administration’s commitment to Christian Nationalism and violent religious rhetoric using the Establishment Clause.”
– Elizabeth Reiner Platt
“Defense Secretary Hegseth tests Constitution in Pentagon worship services” / Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service
September 29, 2025
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“[Justice O’Connor] truly understood that preventing excessive Church-State entanglement was necessary to protect both the equality and religious liberty of persons belonging to all religious sects and none.”
– Dr. Christine Ryan
“Sandra Day O’Connor’s religious freedom legacy” / Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News
December 5, 2023
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“[Medical refusal] bills do not protect religious liberty because they make it impossible for people to follow their own religious and moral values in making major decisions.”
– Elizabeth Reiner Platt
“‘Conscience’ bills let medical providers opt out of providing a wide range of care” / Carly Graf, USA Today
July 31, 2023
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“The idea of reproductive rights as a religious liberty issue is absolutely not something that came from lawyers. It’s how faith communities themselves have been talking about their approach to reproductive rights for literally decades.”
– Elizabeth Reiner Platt
“The sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans” / Alice Miranda Ollstein, Politico
June 21, 2023
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“I see a potential collision course between extremely expansive abortion restrictions and an increasingly expansive right to religious exemptions from other laws.”
– Elizabeth Reiner Platt
“With Roe in peril, abortion rights advocates prepare appeals to religious liberty” / Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service
May 17, 2022
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“What we’ve seen over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the Supreme Court has now created a new constitutional test for the protection of free exercise of religion that is more robust than its standard for basically any other fundamental constitutional right.”
– Elizabeth Reiner Platt
“Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s term” / John Kruzel, The Hill
July 2, 2021
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“[Trump-appointed judges] have brought, from the beginning, a kind of biased concern for the fabricated or possible violation of rights of evangelical Christians.”
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