  Recently there has appeared in the literature a sequence of papers
questioning the consistency of supergravity coupled to Fayet-Iliopoulos terms.
A key feature of these arguments is a demonstration that the conventional
superspace stress tensor fails to be gauge invariant. We briefly show here how
this can be understood as defining the stress tensor in a non-covariant
Brans-Dicke frame in an underlying superconformal theory. When converted to the
Einstein frame, the inconsistency vanishes, which is consistent with the
emergence of a global symmetry discussed in these papers.
