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Smudgie Buggler
Feb 27, 2005

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Er, the First Amendment only protects against interference with the free exercise of religion. It doesn't guarantee you won't be discriminated against for belonging to a particular religion.

It isn't my constitution, and even I know that. Jesus.

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Smudgie Buggler
Feb 27, 2005

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Not according to established precedent:

That extract from Everson doesn't mean what you think it means. The Establishment Clause does not restrain government from discriminating against members of a particular religion unless the primary purpose of doing so is to inhibit the practice of that religion, or to aid another.

Don't get me wrong: the US has other laws that do constrain government from discriminating against members of a particular religion in a general sense. But the First Amendment is not one of them.

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