{"id":6056,"date":"2015-03-31T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T18:14:07","slug":"a-community-conversation-about-the-religious-freedom-restoration-act-rfra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/a-community-conversation-about-the-religious-freedom-restoration-act-rfra\/","title":{"rendered":"A Community Conversation about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the decision by the Indiana state legislators to pass the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the accompanying confusion, anger, hurt, and disagreement over it,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/church\" target=\"_blank\">Faith Church<\/a> hosted a Community Conversation about RFRA on Sunday, March 29 in the Community Room at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/west\" target=\"_blank\">Faith West<\/a>. The goal was to create a public forum where people from the community could share their opinions and also ask Pastor Steve Viars for a fuller explanation of Faith Church&#8217;s position. Almost 100 people from the community attended, and this was the resulting conversation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/uploads\/sermons\/Community_Conversation_about_RFRA.mp3\">Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithlafayette.org\/uploads\/sermons\/RFRA.pdf\">Handout<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch the Video:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/126406972\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"A Community Conversation about RFRA\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the decision by the Indiana state legislators to pass the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the accompanying confusion, anger, hurt, and disagreement over it,\u00a0Faith Church hosted a Community Conversation about RFRA on Sunday, March 29 in the Community Room at Faith West. 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