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    Religious Freedom in L.A.

    A rabbi must close his temple in residential Hancock Park, and a Baptist minister faces criminal charges for allowing homeless people to stay on his church property - on today's program, we'll look at the fallout from the striking down of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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    By Warren Olney • Jul 22, 1997 • 1 min read

    John Alexander : Reverend Drake's lawyer Greg Palmer: Assistant City Prosecutor, City of Buena Park Rabbi Chaim Rubin: Rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim of Hancock Park Rabbi Harvey Fields: Senior Rabbi of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple Congressman Charles Canady: (R - 12th District of Florida) Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, (a sub-committee of the Committee on the Judiciary) Stephen Rohde: Constitutional Lawyer, board of Directors of ACLU Christopher Eisgruber: Professor, New York University Law School, Author of 1994 article, "Why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is Unconstitutional" and other articles Ronald Brownstein: Los Angeles Times, Washington

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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