Around the same time four the Oklahoma schools won their challenge to Obamacare thanks to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, attempts to amend it took another step in Congress. 

First introduced in 2016 in the House of Representatives, the Do No Harm Act now has several co-sponsors in the Senate. Supporters of the measure say RRA is being used to discriminate against gays, lesbians, women and others. 

“Religious freedom does not give anyone the right to discriminate,” said Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “Numerous cases have shown that RFRA as written can lead to unacceptable civil rights violations.”

Ironically, the move comes as Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, lead sponsor of RFRA, is preparing to head into retirement after 2018. RFRA prohibits the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s religious exercise. 

Opponents say Hobby Lobby circumventing Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate and a 2016 lower court decision upholding the firing of a transgender employee by a Michigan funeral home are examples of discrimination linked to the law. 

However, Hatch told the Deseret News: “The day we begin carving out exemptions to RFRA is the day RFRA dies.”