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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
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Religion makes only one direct and obvious appearance in the original Constitution that seems to point to a desire for some degree of religious freedom. That appearance is in Article 6, at the end of the third clause:
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_reli.html
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That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.
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The word 'religion' is not defined in the Constitution.
This recent kerfluffle is an attack by the left on what the "Conservatives right"
Works salvation by the lefties. If they can be more politically correct, they claim the highest virtue.
If we have 30 Mosques in the NYC Metro area, we have far exceeded any claims if prohibiting the Muslim worship.
What is the liberal and anti religious left doing with this sudden fascination in religion? They have the ACLU fighting religion for decades.
The liberals vote for abortion and claim abstinence education must be removed from schools because it is religious.
Simple summary. Congress is not making laws in NYC and they are not creating a religion.
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