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To: aquila48
So, murder is not unconstitutional, but limiting religious freedom is. So strictly speaking, exercising your religious beliefs of sacrificing virgins, or heathens, is protected by the constitution, and it trumps any state or federal laws that would forbid it.

The courts have never, ever understood the First Amendment to be absolute and unrestricted. Freedom of the press does not mean that libel must be allowed. You don't have the right to infringe on someone else's rights just because you declare that infringement to be your religious belief.

Saying that "murder is not unconstutional" ignores the requirement of the fifth and fourteenth amendment's statement that nobody can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

45 posted on 06/28/2022 8:13:04 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Campion

“The courts have never, ever understood the First Amendment to be absolute and unrestricted. “

So you believe in a “living constitution”, one that means whatever a particular court decides.

“fifth and fourteenth amendment’s statement that nobody can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”

Those prohibitions apply to the state not private citizens or entities. Criminal laws are the jurisdiction of the states and federal government, and any of them are fine as long as they don’t go against some explicit” right” in the constitution, such as the right to exercise your religion.


54 posted on 06/28/2022 8:45:38 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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