⚖️ Generally Applicable Laws Burdening Free Exercise | An Introduction to Constitutional Law

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This is great...and hits the CORE of the Founding "Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion." -John Adams, in a letter to Benjamin Rush. 1812 "[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty." -Thomas Jefferson, 1779. "The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man: and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate." -James Madison, 1785. "Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." -Samuel Adams, Speech on August 1, 1776. "While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable." -George Washington, in a letter to Benedict Arnold. "Conscience is the most sacred of all property." -James Madison, 1792.

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Santeria is an affront to God...and should be prosecuted for cruelty. The affront to the conscience of those who adhere to the Biblical basis of our country is HUGE. Romans 13 shows that what you want and what you think God wants has NO -- absolutely no -- connection to morality. By this road we head to Russian psychiatric hospitals and the 'experts' deciding whether you hold your aberrant religious opinion because you are out of your mind and it now becomes the need for government to put you away.