Fox News host: Freedom from religion 'not in the Constitution' (www.rawstory.com)

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Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy asserted on Sunday that Americans did not have Constitutional rights preventing religion from being imposed upon them.

During a Fox News Sunday discussion about recent baptisms of students at Auburn University, co-host Pete Hegseth reported that the Freedom From Religion group was behind a lawsuit against the university.

"It's not in the constitution!" Campos-Duffy interrupted.

"As Rachel points out, it's freedom of religion, not freedom from religion," Hegseth agreed. "So they're an anti-faith, anti-Christian group."

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says "that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise," according to the White House website.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Fundamentalist evangelicals of course. Pssh.

It's crazy how many Americans don't understand the concept of inalienable rights. Their minds can't process that they have rights by nature, and they think all of their rights are granted by the government. I've gotten into huge arguments with people about this because they just can't fathom that there doesn't need to be a compelling reason for something to be legal, on the contrary, there needs to be a compelling reason for something to be made illegal. We all have natural freedoms, the government doesn't give us those, they can only take them away.

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