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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by 1659447091 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:25PM (#50475885)
They used Religious Freedom Restoration Act in that case, and didn't even win.

Some cases that have won use RFRA to legally discriminate against minorities by Evangelical Christians. Native Americans bring lawsuits based on their religion over a sacred site and reclaimed water, just like anyone else can, and yet losing "this landmark case" somehow proves they have too much power?

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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by whimsicalism on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:25PM (#50476465)
I didn’t say they have too much power, I said that the land at question is not tribal land, it is federal lands.
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by 1659447091 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:48AM (#50478871)
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by consensus1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:19AM (#50480078)
What about my religious freedom to not give a shit about their primitive superstitions and what land they consider sacred?
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by 1659447091 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:04AM (#50481058)
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by consensus1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:04AM (#50482333)
No, it does work that way. My freedom of religion means I don't have to respect their bullshit superstitions. They can declare arbitrary pieces of land "sacred" all day long, but they have no right to stop the rest of us from building roads and pipelines right through it anyway.
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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by 1659447091 on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:45AM (#50483403)
> No, it does work that way.

It really does though. And you are misattributing the why you don't have to give shit about their "bullshit superstitions". Are you from the US? This is taught in grade school...

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Re:Data centers need power – lower income, rural residents p... by whimsicalism on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:32PM (#50486793)
My point is that this is not native sovereign land and BAJAA is more about clearing away the numerous types of lawsuits that all sorts of groups can bring that hamstring development in federal lands. The RFRA case is one such type of lawsuit, although not impacted by BAJAA (too bad, the RFRA is a terrible law in my veiw).

> Thats the whole point(major point) of how this country was founded, religious freedom from the government.

I would be very happy if we repealed the RFRA and returned to the well established case law for fundamental 1st amendment protections.

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