Benefits to repealing the 1st Amendment

[Jarlaxle]

The Westboro Baptist Church is a tax-exempt church under the 501(c)(3) provision of the Internal Revenue Code, which pretty much means it's legitimate.

I'm just sayin'

So is the Church of Scientology.

With respect to religion, it is up to the states to make the decision.

There were state sponsored religions up until the 1830's when the last one was written out of the state constitution.

And these sponsorships were never challenged.

As for satanism, I don't have a problem allowing people to worship as they please. They start putting dogs/cats/people on the alter.....different story.

Regarding speech....I do not believe (and it has been a while since I've read up on this) that free speech was intended for all speech. I do believe it was intended to cover Political Free Speech.

You can't do the whole "fire in a croweded theatre" because people might get hurt. I don't see how that wouldn't apply to porn as well or even the use of foul language in public. It is harmful.

Props for raising the challenge.

You need 90 days observation.

 

[Monoculturalist]

Off the top of my head, here are some benefits I can think of:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

This may have been a mistake. I would be fine with legitimate religions such as Christianity being recognized, but not things like Satanism, or cults such as Westboro Baptist Church. I'd be fine with them being banned.

or abridging the freedom of speech

Some "speech" has no redeeming value, and I'd be fine if it wasn't protected. Examples could include expressing hatred of people based on their race or their sex.

While this likely won't happen, I think we shouldn't consider the 1st Amendment sacred, and should be free to question it, just as how many people are questioning the 2nd Amendment in the wake of gun violence.

If the elites controlling our system had very different leanings and biases, I might consider this palatable. Given their current globalist and progressive biases, nope....

 

[Leo123]

Off the top of my head, here are some benefits I can think of:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

This may have been a mistake. I would be fine with legitimate religions such as Christianity being recognized, but not things like Satanism, or cults such as Westboro Baptist Church. I'd be fine with them being banned.

or abridging the freedom of speech

Some "speech" has no redeeming value, and I'd be fine if it wasn't protected. Examples could include expressing hatred of people based on their race or their sex.

While this likely won't happen, I think we shouldn't consider the 1st Amendment sacred, and should be free to question it, just as how many people are questioning the 2nd Amendment in the wake of gun violence.

Non acceptance of speech that has no redeeming value is the standard here. If speech offends you, stand up and say so. Otherwise, never mind.

 

[Papageorgio]

Right, that's why "freedom of religion" as it's been interpreted is stupid. Any reasonable person can see that something like Westboro Baptist Church isn't a legitimate religion, and if one reads the source texts, such as the Bible or the theology of John Calvin, one can see that they've been bastardized, cherry picked, and misinterpreted.

So it should be perfectly legal and Constitutional to ban cults like WBC, as far as I'm concerned.

We might have been better off if the Framers set clear guidelines for what is and what isn't a legitimate religion under the Constitution, and afforded illegitimate ones no Constitutional protection.

That way, we wouldn't be seeing things like Satanism and WBC just barely manage to fall under the legal definition of Constitutional protection.

Why do you get to determine what is a legit and what is not a legit religion? Who determines what is and is not hate speech? I don’t think government has a fight to decide what is and is not a religion, what is hate speech. Asking the definition of a woman is considered hate speech by some.

 

[BluesLegend]

If you don't like our Constitution, why don't you leave?

No one's keeping you here.

China needs slaves I mean people to work in rice fields, these America hating scum should go live their dream in China.