BOB ABERNETHY: A Supreme Court decision from last year still has many religious groups upset. In June, the court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law which said government entities needed a compelling legal reason to restrict religious activities. The justices said Congress had exceeded its authority in passing the law. Now, as correspondent Herbert Kaplow reports, religious groups are pressuring both state legislatures and Congress to come up with new laws that will pass Supreme Court muster.

JOHN WEMBERLY Jr. (Minister): Religious groups need national laws, the kinds of laws you can create up here on Capitol Hill to protect us from the sometimes parochial politics of neighborhoods and cities and counties.

HERBERT KAPLOW: For a while, Presbyterian Minister John Wemberly Jr. and many religious leaders had the kind of law that they wanted, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA. But last June, the Supreme Court declared that unconstitutional and out it went. But now, the religious community is back before Congress trying to get it to write a new law that would better protect religious freedoms.

Unidentified Man: Bless the food that has been prepared.

KAPLOW: In Richmond, Virginia, the local government passed an ordinance saying that no more than 30 people could be fed at a food shelter at any one time. The 31st Street Baptist Church was feeding more than that and claimed that the 30-person limit was unfair.

In Los Angeles, the city council ruled in favor of a homeowners association which objected to the use of a home as a house of prayer -- in this case, a synagogue, in a residential neighborhood.