Religion and the First Amendment

When you want to demonstrate how important something is, you make it first. The First Amendment is one of the most crucial and necessary amendments in the Bill of Rights. In a strong showing of the important need for separation of church and state it opens, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." Those words seem pretty clear to me. A country motto of "In God We Trust" and a Pledge of Allegiance that includes under god clearly violates the First Amendment. Both this motto and pledge should be declared unconstitutional and changed. So as we wait for that change, lets not carve these things into the walls of the Capital. It will only force us to pay for more masonry work in the future as we cover them up. Freedom of religion means that our government doesn't get to shove your god down my throat.


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