Origins of the RLUIPA
Why was the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) passed? Quite a few justifications have been offered, but none of them ring very true. Even though the stated motivations behind the RLUIPA sound positive, at greatest it was a solution to a problem that didn’t exist. At worst, it’s just an attempt to get around the Supreme Court’s striking down with the RFRA, an earlier attempt to give special rights to religious institutions that secular organizations do not have.
