"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ."
The Free Exercise Clause which gives us all the right to worship God, or not, as we choose. That means the government can’t punish you because of your religious beliefs, or because you don’t belong to a church, or believe in God.
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First Amendment: Religion |
First Amendment: Religion |
Module 10: The First Amendment
After a recent television discussion of the religion decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court in the just-ended term, a viewer wrote in asking why the news media kept referring to decisions by the “conservative majority” when they really were made by the “Catholic majority” on the court. Was the news media afraid to make the connection?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s late-night Friday order slapping down most of California’s pandemic restrictions on religious services continued a recent and strong trend among conservative justices, in particular, in favor of the Constitution’s free exercise of religion.
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