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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
They MUST be free to live according to their religious beliefs.
We want to intervene when their religious actions do not make sense to us.
Then the person down the road wants to intervene when your religious actions don't make sense to them.
With all the talk on forums of the "slippery slope"... this is, indeed, a dangerous and slippery slope.
Either the Constitution is the law of the land or it isn't. Either we obey it or we throw it out.
The latter is, increasingly, becoming the trend.
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I got news for you the Supreme Court said over 100 years ago they can regulate religious actions, but not beliefs.
"Coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure, it may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the amendment thus secured.
Congress was deprived of all legislative power over mere opinion, but was left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order." Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878).
Now as far as what you quoted even original intent won't help you because the Amendment prohibited CONGRESS from making laws not states (and yes that was the original intent) and was never applied against the states until it was argued that the 14th Amendment incorporated the Bill of Rights and made them enforceable against the states.
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