FIRST AMENDMENT RELIGIOUS RIGHTS

The First Amendment religion clauses explained:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or....

 - respecting = having anything to do with

 - establishment of religion = a religion, an religious organization, or a religious denomination

So in present English, it means:

Congress shall not make any law having anything to do with any religion, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or....

How people of different beliefs must treat each other.

These are your religious rights and obligations in the US:

GOVERNMENT MUST NOT INTERFERE WITH RELIGION.

• No government, person, employer, or group has any right to interfere with religious beliefs:
  1. You (as an individual) have the right to believe in anything.
      - There is a difference between believing and acting on such beliefs.
      - There is no way that government can control what anyone thinks or believes.
      - Nobody has the right to make you believe anything.
      - Nobody has the right to make you not believe anything.
  2. You cannot be compelled to obey any religion.
  3. You cannot be compelled to believe in any religion.
  4. You cannot be compelled to disobey any religion.
  5. You cannot be compelled to disbelieve any religion.
  6. You have the right to obey your religion
      - You do not have any right to physically or materially harm others.
      - You do not have the power to make what you want to happen come true in the world.
  7. You cannot be compelled by anyone to DO anything that any religion prohibits.
  8. You do not have to obey any religion you do not belong to.
  9. You are obligated to not cause anyone else to disobey any religion.
  10. You have no right to demand that any religion must change its beliefs. Nobody else has that right either.
  11. You shall not discriminate for or against any religious belief or any lack of religious beliefs.
       - You shall not deny anyone a secular job because of a religious belief or lack thereof.
        - But no religious organization shall be forced to hire nonmembers.
       - You shall not deny anyone a teaching position because of a religious belief.
       - You shall warn job applicants if the job requires actions that some religions prohibit (e.g. handling pork).
  12. Religious people shall not be denied rights or funding others receive.
  13. Materials needed for religious purposes shall not be prohibited.
  14. Governments and politicians shall never demand to be worshiped.
  15. No religious belief shall be part of the law (other than similar civil rights).
  16. There is no right to demand that something that offends you must be removed.
  17. Religious organizations and offerings shall not be taxed.
       - Taxing religious donations is effectively stealing them to use them for purposes the donor didn't intend.
• Public schools must be religion-neutral, not anti-religion.
  1. No public school or school employee shall either abet or hinder anyone's religious beliefs.
  2. No public school teacher shall teach the teacher's own political or religious beliefs.
  3. No public school shall require any course with teachings that violate, contradict, or favor any religion.
  4. If any student objects to profanity in course materials, it must be removed.
  5. No alternative school user shall be taxed to fund public education.
• Government must be religion-neutral, not anti-religion:
  1. Government must never favor or oppose any religion.
  2. Government must not be anti-religion.
  3. For the purposes of the First Amendment, Atheism and Antitheism are religions.
  4. Government must not adopt policies that offend or violate any religion.
  5. Tax money must not be spent on anything that disobeys any religion.
  6. Government must not demand anything that can prevent someone's entry into the desired afterlife.
  7. Most religions are defined by immutable ancient texts. They may not be changed.
  8. Government has no right and no power to change any religious belief.
  9. There cannot be such a thing as Freedom From Religion.
      - Freedom From Religion wrongly forces others to obey Atheism.
• Government may do these with respect to religion:
  1. Protect the same civil rights any religion independently protects.
  2. Prohibit members of religions from murdering, maiming, kidnapping, or damaging or destroying the property of others.
  3. Keep religions from forcing their beliefs and rules upon nonmembers.
  4. Referee cases where people with different beliefs are in conflict without violating either belief.
      - But government shall never favor one belief over another belief when doing this.
      - No person shall be required to do anything that disobeys a belief.
  5. Prohibit discrimination against any religious belief.
  6. Keep religions from controlling government.
  7. Equally fund education in both religious and secular schools and majors.
• These religious activities do not force religion onto others:
  1. Exposure to religion or religious teachings, unless others are forced to watch or listen to them.
  2. The presence of religious sights or sounds near a workplace or in public.
  3. Handing out pamphlets, unless others are required to take them.
  4. Refusing to do something that someone else wants done because your religion prohibits you from doing it.
  5. Obeying a religion by avoiding being an accomplice to what your religion says is wrongdoing.
  6. Avoiding incompatible practices of other religions.
• These are religions. Their beliefs must not be part of public policy, forced onto others, or taught in public schools:

   - They may be taught in public schools only if all religions are taught in public schools.

  1. Any group worshiping a deity, whether spiritual, material, or conceptual
  2. Any political belief
  3. Environmentalism (only their prescribed actions and unproved beliefs)
  4. Political Correctness (the Baha'i Faith plagiarized)
  5. Atheism and Antitheism
  6. Evolution as the origin of life:
      - Rules that treat miracles as random chance discriminate against religion.
      - It's not a theory, it's a null hypothesis. Mutation causes in the past aren't testable.
  7. Humanism, Secular Humanism, Humanitarianism, and Statism (worshiping people and/or government)
  8. Spiritism, Wicca, Satanism, Astrology, and other miscellaneous beliefs.
  9. All beliefs about GLBT activities
  10. Wokism, Critical Race Theory and White Supremacy.
  11. Any movement using bad science to "prove" its belief
  12. Anything that is part of a religion, such as Yoga, American Indian lore, Mandala creation, or Transcendental Meditation
• Many religions believe that abortion is murder:
  1. Killing a human being who is not found guilty of capital crime, and is not endangering lives or property, is murder in most religions.
  2. An unborn baby is a human being. To kill it without first convicting it of a capital crime is murder.
      - How the state defines life does not matter here.
  3. But an abortion may be performed to save the mother's life if the pregnancy is medically endangering the mother's life.
  4. Liberals use a quirk in the US Constitution to say that abortion is not wrong.
  5. Abortion is murder, not manslaughter, because the person wanting the abortion knows who the victim is.
  6. Because abortion is wrongdoing in many religions, government funds must not pay for any abortions.
• Science must not take sides:
  1. The tenet that miracles must be considered to be random chance was wrongly inserted into the scientific method by Atheists.
      - Rules that treat miracles as random chance discriminate against religion.
  2. Doing any scientific work with the intent to prove what the scientist already believes is always bad science.
  3. More bad science has been done to advance GLBT rights than for any other reason.
      - The page author proposed a method to do the GLBT science correctly. Nobody has ever tried to do it the right way.
  4. Science has the power to determine what the true nature of something is.
      - Science does not have the right or the power to prescribe specific remedies.
  5. Science has no power to investigate anything in the supernatural.
  6. Science has no power to decide whether any act is righteousness or wrongdoing.
  7. The fact that science shows that something is possible does not show that it is the right thing to do.
  8. Because GLBT is wrongdoing in many religions, government must not side with it.
  9. Because GLBT is wrongdoing in many religions, science can't show that it is not wrongdoing.
• GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) is a religious belief.
  1. The belief on the permissibility of homosexuality is different for each different religion.
      - Any religion can have any belief about GLBT.
      - GLBT cannot be a civil right freed from discrimination, except as a practice of any religion that permits it.
      - Any other rights policy gives homosexuals a special civil right at the expense of the religious rights of others.
      - Many religions consider GLBT to be evil - disobedience of God.
  2. Political Correctness and other liberal religions do not have special status. They are equal in status to all other religions.
  3. GLBT is not shown to be hereditary. The science saying it is hereditary was shown to be bad science.
      - If homosexuality were found to be hereditary, it would disprove the natural selection part of Evolution.
      - Most religions treat GLBT acts as sins (prohibited behavior).
      - No religion has a concept of someone "being" GLBT. Only GLBT acts are mentioned.
      - Even if GLBT were proved to be hereditary or inevitable, religions can still prohibit GLBT acts.
  4. GLBT cannot be used as a right to force others to disobey religious requirements to avoid wrongdoing.
  5. Those practicing homosexuality are not to be mistreated.

      - They may be told or warned that some religions have eternal consequences to GLBT acts.

  6. Most religions believe that homosexual cravings are similar to cravings for other pleasures (such as gambling).
      - They say that that people should have the will power to control their own cravings.
      - Some religions say that GLBT cravings are a result of deliberately worshiping created things instead of the deity.
  7. Government is wrong (without ironclad proof) to claim that homosexuality is an inevitable trait.
  8. Government has no right to try to change any religious beliefs.
  9. A property owner has the right to prohibit acts that disobey religions on that property.
• Political beliefs should have the same status as religious beliefs.
  1. Most political beliefs are beliefs that cannot be proved. Thus, they have the properties of religious beliefs.
  2. The political beliefs of many people are the result of their religious beliefs.
  3. Political Correctness and other liberal beliefs do not have special status. They have equal status to all beliefs and religions.
  4. Most political beliefs on abortion and GLBT are based on religious beliefs.
  5. Political beliefs are not facts.
  6. Those with political beliefs are not to be mistreated or discriminated against.
  7. Government is wrong to side with certain political beliefs and shun others.
  8. Government has no right or power to try to change any political beliefs.

How people of different beliefs must treat each other.

PEOPLE MUST NOT DEMEAN OR DENIGRATE EACH OTHER'S BELIEFS.

• All beliefs are equal in validity and under the law.
  1. You (as an individual) have the right to believe in anything you want to believe in.
  2. Atheism is equal in validity and under the law to all other beliefs.
  3. Because these are beliefs, there is no scientific way to prove that any belief is either true or false,
  4. Nobody has the right or the power to make others change their beliefs.
  5. Science has no power to investigate anything in the supernatural.
  6. Science has no power to decide whether any act is righteousness or wrongdoing.
  7. The fact that science shows that something is possible does not show that it is the right thing to do.
• All beliefs shall have equal protection under the law.
  1. You have no right to demean or denigrate any belief.
      - Demeaning or denigrating any belief is discriminating against that belief.
  2. You have no right to demand that someone with a certain belief must prove that the belief is true.
  3. You have no right to demand that others must obey your beliefs.
      - But if others are using your property, they must not use it to disobey your religion.
  4. Others have no right to demand that you must obey their beliefs.
  5. You have no right to demand that others must change their beliefs.
  6. There is no way to prove that any belief is true.
  7. There is no way to prove that any belief is false.
  8. It is impossible to prove that something does not exist.
  9. It is wrongdoing to demand a world without religion.
      - This demand violates the First Amendment rights of most people and discriminates against religious beliefs.
      - If you really want a world without religion, you must self-isolate on your own property from all exposure to religious beliefs.
  10. You have no right to make threats to force others obey your beliefs.
  11. You have no right to have laws passed to force others to obey your beliefs.
• Nobody has the right to demand that others must accept their beliefs as the truth.

  You must accept that they believe in their belief, but you do not have to believe in their beliefs or obey them.

  1. Your belief in equality of the sexes is just a belief. You can't force it on others.
  2. You have no right to demand that religions must change their beliefs to accommodate your belief in equality of the sexes.
  3. You have no right to demand that language must be changed to remove all mention of gender.
  4. You have no right to demand that others must believe in alternate gender identities.
  5. You have no right to demand that language must be changed to add alternative gender identities.
  6. You have no right to demand that others must disobey their religious beliefs so you can use the restroom of your choice.
  7. You have no right to demand that religions must change their beliefs to accommodate your beliefs in alternative gender identities.
  8. You have no right to demand that religions must change their beliefs to accommodate your beliefs on abortion.
  9. You have no right to demand that others believe in or pay for your belief in a right to abortion.
  10. You have no right to demand that others believe in or pay for your beliefs on climate change remedies.
  11. You have no right to demand that others believe in or obey your desire for gun control.
  12. You have no right to be angry because others do not believe in or obey your beliefs.
  13. You have no right to demand that people get rid of things they have because those things offend you.
  14. You have no right to sue because others do not believe in or obey your beliefs.
  15. You have no right to make threats to force others believe in or obey your beliefs.
  16. You have no right to have laws passed to force others to believe in or obey your beliefs.
  17. You have no right to expect to have expensive things given to you at the expense of others.
  18. You have no right to expect to live without having to work for a living. You must work to pay for work others did to produce your food.
  19. When you demand that others obey your beliefs, you are just screaming "My way! My way! My way!" to get your way at others' expense.
• No belief shall be used to cause others to endure discrimination or to do or endure anything prohibited by their beliefs.

  There are six kinds of conflict here:

  1. Religious requirements based on birth gender:
      - We have male and female restrooms because many must not disrobe in the presence of people of opposite birth gender.
      - YOU don't have the right to impose a belief gender on others by entering a restrooms of the opposite birth gender.
      - Either restroom choice must depend on birth gender or single-user restrooms must be available.
  2. Physiological differences based on birth gender:
      - Birth genders have real skeletal and muscular differences that affect physical performance.
      - Allowing multiple birth-gender structures in sports contests is cheating.
      - No set of beliefs can erase actual physical differences in gender.
  3. Religious scriptures prohibiting GLBT activity:
      - Religious belief is a human right and is protected by the First Amendment.
      - You have no right to do anything about what other people's religious beliefs are.
      - Religions can prohibit anything they want to. Various religions prohibit:
        pork, tubers, musical instruments, recordings, motor vehicles, photographs, radios, certain books,
        electricity, telephones, certain foods, multifiber cloth, secular music, certain medical procedures, tattoos,
        using psychics, women's rights, city water, and many other things.
      - Those who do not belong to a religion are not required to obey its prohibitions.
      - Those paying for the use of property must not do anything to cause the property owner to disobey any religion.
  4. GLBT demands that people treat them according to their chosen identity:
      - Such demands are wrongly forcing your beliefs onto others.
      - Such demands unconstitutionally violate the religious beliefs of others.
  5. GLBT demands that people do things their religions prohibit:
      - Nobody can be compelled to DO anything that any religion prohibits.
      - Such demands unconstitutionally violate the religious beliefs of others.
  6. GLBT demands that religions must change their beliefs:
      - You have no right to demand that any religion must change its beliefs. Nobody else has that right either.
      - There is no the right to demand that something that offends you must be removed.
      - Such demands unconstitutionally violate the religious beliefs of others.