{"id":16564,"date":"2014-03-26T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16564"},"modified":"2014-03-26T21:09:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T01:09:33","slug":"protect-my-first-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/26\/protect-my-first-amendment-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect My First Amendment Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.\u00a0 government archives says that the following are the words of the <a title=\"Transcript of the Bill of Rights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/charters\/bill_of_rights_transcript.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amendment I<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any law that gives rights on the grounds of religion is &#8220;an establishment of religion&#8221;.\u00a0 So the clauses in the ACA (Obamacare) that give religious organizations the right to ignore rules that everyone else must obey is &#8220;an establishment of religion&#8221;.\u00a0 In order\u00a0 for the government to know which establishments qualify for a religious exemption, they must set up criteria for &#8220;an establishment of religion&#8221;.\u00a0 Could the U.S. Constitution be any clearer that this is unconstitutional?<\/p>\n<p>To allow any corporation an exemption from a rule that requires the declaration of a religious reason for that exemption is &#8220;an establishment of religion&#8221;.\u00a0 If people who do not declare religion as a reason cannot get the exemption, then this is &#8220;an establishment of religion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>How many of our current Supreme Court Justices could pass a first grade reading comprehension test if they cannot comprehend the first 10 words of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the Senate needs to ask all prospective judicial appointees what they think those 10 words mean before the Senate can give consent to a judicial appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.\u00a0 government archives says that the following are the words of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16565,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions\/16565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}