Why do people claim that the first amendment protects the right of religious practice?
The Constitution limits the scope and power of the federal government that’s it that’s all it does. Past what it specifically places in the realm of the fed belongs to the STATES to decide. As to religion it prohibits our federal government from installing any one religion as being the sole religion of the country period that’s it. The bill of rights simply lays out “inalienable rights of citizens” these are rights that by right of existence are again PROHIBITED from government regulation or interference. All the rest of the Peripheral stuff like sacrificing virgins is then and always has been left to the populace to debate decide and regulate this is how the system is and should work that’s the whole “we the people” part. When you think about it really the religion thing is kind of a dilemma since it is the GOVERNMENT that qualifies a “religion” as being such and gives it its tax exempt status so it inherently gets in the mix. I mean think about it all religion was at its inception a
