When something starts off with an inaccuracy, what follows is useless drivel.
The First amendment grants nothing. It presupposes such rights already exist and that the government can do nothing to forbid a citizen's exercise of them. In fact, the Bill of Rights grants no rights, it recognizes specific rights we possess and tells the government, "hands off!" Further on, in the Ninth and Tenth amendments, the framers said, "anything we forgot to list here, the rights already exist."
The smartest accumulation of people in history, the founders of the US knew that any right that could be granted could easily be withdrawn.
Leftists want to remove all mention of God from the public domain, now if we extrapolate to the Declaration of Independence, and remove the 'endowed by our Creator', this would than mean that our rights are given by the government - if our rights are given by the government than the government can take away those rights.
I really don't think these Socialist Left wing liberal idiots have thought the whole removing 'in God we trust' thing through enough.
On the one hand they kick and scream about Bush being a 'dictator' and how the US is a tyranny, while on the other they pave the way for a genuine state of tyranny.
But then, liberal left thinking isn't exactly grounded in reality now, is it?
I wish I could shake 'em by the shoulders and say 'look, this is reality - see how different it is from your fantasies? Now wake up!". Wishful thinking...
Precisely. Free speech doesn't mean free speech. The First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law..." It means just that, only that and nothing but that. The Dixie Chicks made the same error in thinking that free speech means free speech.