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Replying to TRANSPONDER in post #26]
I have to give you an 'A' for effort here, TRANSPONDER. Rarely have I seen someone work so hard trying to salvage an argument so totally wrong.
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:06 pm
The First amendment effectively guarantees freedom of religion, but not No religion. Obama's bill extended that right equally to atheists. That is when the right to Freedom of religion became extended to the right to Freedom FROM religion.
What you missed here is that the
International Religious Freedom Act -- as it's name suggests -- is not about the religious freedom of American citizens. Rather, it concerns U.S. foreign policy in advocating for the religious freedom of people
in other countries.
As the American Atheist article you cited above already pointed out, the Supreme Court ruled as early as the 1960s -- and definitely by the 1980s -- that the First Amendment already guarantees the right of atheists not to practice any religion. No legislation in the 2000s made any meaningful change to that.