• ARk@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    What’s the point of putting it up there if they don’t follow it?

    • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Enforcing religiousity has little to do with morals and more to do with control. Look at any religious state and you will find not a moral state, but one that uses religion to control other people and enforce their power.

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        I can put up a poster on my property or business of the ten commandments and it’s free speech. Does the government have the same protection? Can a government entity invoke the first amendment?

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          The constitution lays out certain things the government can’t say or do. One of those things is bring together church and state

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          A simple reading would be no.

          “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”

          In the strictest sense, it only applies to acts of Congress. It doesn’t even apply to states. However, the 14th Amendment setup a framework for incorporating the federal constitution down to the states, including this. Freedom of speech has also been interpreted more broadly in general.