This Land is My Land: The Tension Between Federal Use of Public Lands and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Lieutenant Colonel James E. Key, 65 A.F. L. Rev. 51 (2010)
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This article posits that despite its sweeping language, Congress never intended for RFRA to control government land use decisions with respect to public lands. Two legislative options to remove RFRA from these types of decisions are to either (1) amend RFRA to explicitly exclude public land use or (2) repeal RFRA in its entirety. Without legislative action, government agencies must prepare to meet RFRA challenges by relying on existing legal precedent.
