Simply stated, what the First Amendment covers is more than just the 'free speech' thing. It states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of a 'national religion', or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (the Government can't prevent you from observing any one or other religion); or abridging the freedom of speech, or freedom of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Which is why muslims use our laws against us and get away with it.
ReplyDeleteThe phrase "establishment of religion" riffs off the Anglican Establishment which was the law that made the Church of England the state religion.
ReplyDeletePilgrims had seen enough of what happens when princes consort with priests.
DeleteThat 'separation' idea was created by a religious think tank of the day. The thought was about the need to keep the howling wilderness of government from interfering with the garden of religion.
ReplyDeleteWe need to legislate that Islam is not a religion but is a political ideology set on conquest and then ban it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in high school in Boston in the late 1950’s, my home room teacher read the Bible to us every morning before classes began. He read the KJV to a classroom full of Catholics and Jews, and was blithely unaware that other versions existed.
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