Freedom to practice your religion on your own time and in venues where it is permitted.
For example:
- it doesn't mean you have the right to start preaching loudly in the middle of a hospital maternity ward
- it doesn't mean that you have the right to not be fired when in your job as waitress you stop work without permission, get down on the floor in the middle of the restaurant, face toward Mecca and pray
etc.
In general in the U.S., you are free to practice your religion as long as the religious practice does not break the law or violate another person's rights.
There are some other considerations. In the U.S., you are not allowed to do anything as a religious practice that breaks the law unless
a - you can prove that your religion has been practicing that behavior as a religious practice since before the practice was outlawed
b - again: the behavior does not violate anyone else's rights
So, basically it means:
- you can engage in the religious practices of your religion during "personal time"
- as long as you do not break the law while doing so
- and as long as you do not violate another person's rights while doing so
Removing the legislative and sociological compulsion to promote one religion above another. This includes removing the compulsion to promote any religion at all - ie freedom from religion needs to be included too.
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Freedom to practice your religion on your own time and in venues where it is permitted.
For example:
- it doesn't mean you have the right to start preaching loudly in the middle of a hospital maternity ward
- it doesn't mean that you have the right to not be fired when in your job as waitress you stop work without permission, get down on the floor in the middle of the restaurant, face toward Mecca and pray
etc.
In general in the U.S., you are free to practice your religion as long as the religious practice does not break the law or violate another person's rights.
There are some other considerations. In the U.S., you are not allowed to do anything as a religious practice that breaks the law unless
a - you can prove that your religion has been practicing that behavior as a religious practice since before the practice was outlawed
b - again: the behavior does not violate anyone else's rights
So, basically it means:
- you can engage in the religious practices of your religion during "personal time"
- as long as you do not break the law while doing so
- and as long as you do not violate another person's rights while doing so
What exactly does "you are gay and homophobic at the same time" entail. Dumbass.
Minding your own business.
It just means that the state has not sanctioned any particular religion as being the "correct" one. So you are free to choose.
And that the state has not been established on any particular religion.
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Anything anyone can come up with.
Christian conservatives wanting to control everyone's beliefs.
Removing the legislative and sociological compulsion to promote one religion above another. This includes removing the compulsion to promote any religion at all - ie freedom from religion needs to be included too.
Freedom to believe in whatever u want whether it's a god, Satan or anything