Violation Of The First Amendment Essay
Violation of the First Amendment
Understanding how or why the Government has compromised our rights as citizens is vital information when living in the United States. Let’s take the First amendment for example; Freedom of Religion. The First amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ...” But how far can our freedom go? Either if you are part of a religion or not. The Government can’t get involved with any religion party involving politics. What about the Muslim company case? What would the government rule in the case? Would they rule freedom of religion; or would they rule it as not freedom of religion?
In July of 2014 there was a story of a Muslim company forcing Christian Employees to wear custom Muslim headscarves. Is this freedom of religion; or just an Appropriate Attire for their store? How would any differentiate this case? The Civil rights act of 1964 which clearly states that this “prohibits any employer, …show more content…
I for one am very worked up by the company themselves - to threaten their income, and their jobs. How could the owner say this is an act of freedom of religion? Maybe in his eyes it is freedom of religion and it could be if he were to go at this a different way. The government can’t always get involved in many of these cases because of our first amendment, but how far would these cases have to go before the Government has to violate our freedom of religion? How infuriated could our people get before they need the government to get involved? We all have our individual rights, I get that, but we exercise in our rights only go so far before the government takes our freedom into their own hands. Although the government hasn’t really compromised this right, we need to understand what the consequences are when we recognize that the government has violated more than just our
Understanding how or why the Government has compromised our rights as citizens is vital information when living in the United States. Let’s take the First amendment for example; Freedom of Religion. The First amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ...” But how far can our freedom go? Either if you are part of a religion or not. The Government can’t get involved with any religion party involving politics. What about the Muslim company case? What would the government rule in the case? Would they rule freedom of religion; or would they rule it as not freedom of religion?
In July of 2014 there was a story of a Muslim company forcing Christian Employees to wear custom Muslim headscarves. Is this freedom of religion; or just an Appropriate Attire for their store? How would any differentiate this case? The Civil rights act of 1964 which clearly states that this “prohibits any employer, …show more content…
I for one am very worked up by the company themselves - to threaten their income, and their jobs. How could the owner say this is an act of freedom of religion? Maybe in his eyes it is freedom of religion and it could be if he were to go at this a different way. The government can’t always get involved in many of these cases because of our first amendment, but how far would these cases have to go before the Government has to violate our freedom of religion? How infuriated could our people get before they need the government to get involved? We all have our individual rights, I get that, but we exercise in our rights only go so far before the government takes our freedom into their own hands. Although the government hasn’t really compromised this right, we need to understand what the consequences are when we recognize that the government has violated more than just our