Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;Reading comprehension is important.
Congress has not made any laws regarding religion, nor has congress prohibited anyone's free exercise.
Ted Cruz, the brilliant constitutional lawyer should actually read the constitution before embarrassing himself again.
I disagree, lewislynn. By prohibiting prayer in schools, by prohibiting religious expressions like nativity scenes & crosses in public places- & the plaques or statues containing the Ten Commandments (upon which *some*- not all, of our criminal law is based)…that is most definitely “prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.
Not one of those things interferes or infringes upon, in any way, with another person’s right to exercise their chosen faith.
Before this purge of Christianity from the schools & public places, there were no laws in place, but they were traditionally practiced by the majority of Americans just because they were. Then, Madeline Murray O’ Hare et al began suing to have these things to be prohibited- causing laws to be written.
I am a “traditional” Christian, not a dominionist or dispensationalist, but this is very definitely a violation of the First Amendment, imo. That this succeeded is a testament to the decay in our legislative & judicial branches.
But courts have misapplied this establishment clause and prohibited the free exercise of religion at federal, state, and local levels.