Freedom Of Religion
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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The following letter lists the definition of freedom of religion that I wrote about in previous letters to the editor, actual text of the U.S. Constitution, and a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would further enhance freedom of religion here and abroad.
Freedom of religion is the inalienable right of each person whether alone or with others to peacefully, openly, freely and with respect for the rights of others profess no belief in the supernatural and refuse to practice any religion at all and for each person to be free from having acts of persecution, forced conversion, intrusion into the internal affair of one's congregation, denomination, or faith and the establishment of a universal state church/state religion or militant state atheism inflicted upon them by any part or whole of any local, state, national, continental, or world government.
The actual text of the 1st Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" Article 6 Clause 3 reads: "but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
In the proposed amendment: Neither Congress, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts the President and his or her Cabinet, the federal bureaucracies; nor the executive, legislative, judicial or bureaucratic branches of government of the various states, counties, and localities of the Union; nor a powerful minority or majority of the voting American public; nor a foreign power, foreign alliance or an international authority during peacetime or war shall infringe upon the inalienable right of the inhabitants and citizens of the United States and its territories or of foreigners residing here of abroad to peacefully, openly, freely, and with respect for the rights of others; profess belief in the supernatural or no belief at all, to engage in the practice of a religion of one's own choosing or no religion at all, and to be free from persecution, forced conversion, intrusion into internal affairs of one's congregation, denomination, or faith, and the establishment of a universal state church/religion or militant state atheism.
Readers of the Times-Union are welcome to use the principle/definition that I developed, the actual text of the U.S. Constitution, and the proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that I also developed, which expands and modernizes on what was originally written in the U.S. Constitution, in any future letters to their elected officials.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
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The following letter lists the definition of freedom of religion that I wrote about in previous letters to the editor, actual text of the U.S. Constitution, and a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would further enhance freedom of religion here and abroad.
Freedom of religion is the inalienable right of each person whether alone or with others to peacefully, openly, freely and with respect for the rights of others profess no belief in the supernatural and refuse to practice any religion at all and for each person to be free from having acts of persecution, forced conversion, intrusion into the internal affair of one's congregation, denomination, or faith and the establishment of a universal state church/state religion or militant state atheism inflicted upon them by any part or whole of any local, state, national, continental, or world government.
The actual text of the 1st Amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" Article 6 Clause 3 reads: "but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
In the proposed amendment: Neither Congress, the Supreme Court and lower federal courts the President and his or her Cabinet, the federal bureaucracies; nor the executive, legislative, judicial or bureaucratic branches of government of the various states, counties, and localities of the Union; nor a powerful minority or majority of the voting American public; nor a foreign power, foreign alliance or an international authority during peacetime or war shall infringe upon the inalienable right of the inhabitants and citizens of the United States and its territories or of foreigners residing here of abroad to peacefully, openly, freely, and with respect for the rights of others; profess belief in the supernatural or no belief at all, to engage in the practice of a religion of one's own choosing or no religion at all, and to be free from persecution, forced conversion, intrusion into internal affairs of one's congregation, denomination, or faith, and the establishment of a universal state church/religion or militant state atheism.
Readers of the Times-Union are welcome to use the principle/definition that I developed, the actual text of the U.S. Constitution, and the proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that I also developed, which expands and modernizes on what was originally written in the U.S. Constitution, in any future letters to their elected officials.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg
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