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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

The people I listed were all excommunicated for questioning the Mormon church. No freedom of speech there.


19 posted on 02/11/2016 1:36:45 AM PST by reaganaut (Insert tagline here)
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To: reaganaut
Your understanding of the First Amendment is wrong. Here's the complete text of the First Amendment:

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.

As written, the First Amendment only restricts actions by Congress

. It places absolutely no limits on the actions of private parties, including Churches, at all. People mess this up all the time, but a private person cannot violate you Constitutional rights because those rights are defined only in terms of protection g you from the government.

45 posted on 02/11/2016 5:19:23 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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