Definitions

In this Act: (1) The term foreign law includes any law, rule, or regulation of jurisdictions outside the United States of America and its territories and possessions and/or which does not recognize and protect the same or equivalent individual rights and liberties guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States of America. (2) The term religious law, custom, or practice means any law, rule, or regulation constituting, implementing, or enforcing a religious system, belief, code, or ethnic or tribal custom or practice. (3) The term laws, customs, and practices includes those laws, customs, and practices, which permit, enforce, or implement any of the following: (A) Prejudicial treatment of women or persons of a particular race, religion, ethnicity, social class, or caste before the law. (B) Prohibition of the right to leave, change, or renounce one’s religion or belief. (C) Prohibition of otherwise protected speech or assembly. (D) Plural marriages. (E) Marriages of convenience or contracts for sexual services. (F) Forced or underage marriages. (G) Violence against women and children, excluding reasonable parental discipline of children. (H) Politically or religiously motivated physical violence or homicide. (I) Cruel and unusual punishments as prohibited by the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution, including, but not limited to, punishments such as amputation, lashing, flogging, stoning, branding, or piercing. (J) Female genital mutilation. (K) Human sacrifice.