BackAgain
Neutronium Member & truth speaker #StopBrandon
At the outset, let’s state that this is in current events (for now) since the SCOTUS has rendered a new decision about how the state cannot enforce laws which violate religious beliefs.
First: let’s put up the entire 1st Amendment.
There is no state religion. Cool. The gubmint cannot compel me to be a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, etc. and it can’t compel me to even have a religious belief or to have or profess any given faith.
Then it says that it cannot prohibit me from having any particular faith or no faith at all.
That’s it. That’s all it says. Various cases have led to a wide array of court decisions which seem to go beyond those two things. I’d proceed to analyze any such cases instead just on those two clauses.
Does a particular law deny me my right to the practice of my religion? If not, does it compel me to adhere to any other specific religious belief? If no to both, then no violation of the 1st Amendment religion clauses.
First: let’s put up the entire 1st Amendment.
Now, let’s suggest that those two highlighted clauses (in red) aren’t really terribly unclear at all.Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
There is no state religion. Cool. The gubmint cannot compel me to be a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, etc. and it can’t compel me to even have a religious belief or to have or profess any given faith.
Then it says that it cannot prohibit me from having any particular faith or no faith at all.
That’s it. That’s all it says. Various cases have led to a wide array of court decisions which seem to go beyond those two things. I’d proceed to analyze any such cases instead just on those two clauses.
Does a particular law deny me my right to the practice of my religion? If not, does it compel me to adhere to any other specific religious belief? If no to both, then no violation of the 1st Amendment religion clauses.