Essay By Jenna Reinbold | August 20, 2019 Email Print (Getty/AFP/ Brendan Smialowski) In November of 1993, members of the U.S. Congress did something that today seems almost inconceivable: they reached near-unanimous agreement on a pressing political question—and not just any question, but a fundamental question concerning the proper parameters of the separation of church and state. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act garnered a unanimous vote in the House and a vote of 97-3 in the Senate.
