“Government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict serving migrants”
Once the Supreme Court began to belatedly protect the First Amendment, some lefties began to get the clever idea to rebrand their particular horrible things as their religious practice. The Satanic Temple which, unlike the Church of Satan, is just a leftist movement that isn’t serious about human sacrifice, started bringing religious freedom cases, and there was a push to classify abortion as a religious practice.
Calling aiding illegal aliens invading America a religious practice protected by the First Amendment may top even that.
Government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, says a top U.S. bishop.
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the issue this week while in Louisville, Kentucky, for a USCCB meeting where migration issues, including the long wait for religious worker visas, came up repeatedly. He acknowledged recent targeting of faith-based border work by government officials, including the Texas attorney general’s attempts to shutdown a Catholic nonprofit that has operated a network of migrant shelters for decades.
“We obviously want to respect the law, but if that liberty is restricted, then yes, our religious liberty is being restricted because we can’t put into practice the precepts of the Gospel,” Broglio said during a news conference Thursday.
This doesn’t work for the same reason that classifying abortion as a religious practice fails the 1A test.
The First Amendment provides a wide cone of protection for religious practices, but you cannot classify crimes, abuses, and the invasion of America as a “religious practice” and a ban on it as a restriction on your religious freedom.
There have been various tests of the limitations of religious freedom when it came to substance abuses, such as Jewish and Catholic uses of wine during Prohibition, and the use of drugs by some Indian tribes.
Killing babies or invading America may indeed be your sincere religious belief (maybe both if you’re a follower of Mohammed) but since these acts cause harm to other human beings, they’re still illegal. Sorry.
Now to be fair to the Left, theirs is indeed a religion or a cult, just not one that they will admit to. Instead, they disguise themselves in the forms of actual religions while claiming that destroying the country is how they live out their moral values.
There are too many pro-invasion activists wrongly using Catholicism, Judaism or other religious beliefs as their shield.
But you still can’t invade America. Sorry.
somehistory says
I’m not *sorry,* Mr. Greenfield that these ghouls can’t destroy the lives of unborn babies and call it their *religion.* Millions of tiny lives have been destroyed by the worshippers of moloch/moloech under the guise of ‘women’s reproductive health,’ so keeping them from destroying even more under a different lie, is nothing for which to be sorry.
And nothing to be ‘sorry’ for regarding keeping them from aiding and abetting the illegal trespass of hordes of people, many who wish to do the rest of us great harm.
Two illegals from Venezuela murdered a child in Houston, TX just in the last few days. That’s just one among so very many. So, I am not the least bit sorry that some crimps are put in the way of people aiding and abetting crime and criminals.
OT:
:”New Jersey school district apologizes for offending Muslim group with question about ISIS terror group in quiz”
Their taking “offense” shows that they too, are a terror group.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-jersey-school-district-apologizes-for-offending-muslim-group-with-question-about-isis-terror-group-in-quiz/ar-BB1oFShb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=1195f9b8bf6d423dba102e9ae672d87b&ei=36
Mike says
Mr. Greenfield: good article. By the way, how did the Jewish and Roman Catholic religious services cope with the Prohibition ban against alcohol in the United States at that time? I know that some Protestant churches substituted wine with grape juice (some still do, though they don’t have to, unless their interpretation of scripture tells them to.).
somehistory says
Alcoholics and children might be given juice, even if the rest of a congregation drinks wine.
somehistory says
And some of the ‘reps’ find the ‘migrant crises’ funny. Maybe it’s just the assaults and rapes and kidnapping this creep finds funny.
“‘Callous And Heartless’: Pramila Jayapal Blasted For Allegedly Laughing At Coverage Of Migrant’s Assault On Teen”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/callous-and-heartless-pramila-jayapal-blasted-for-allegedly-laughing-at-coverage-of-migrant-s-assault-on-teen/ar-BB1oHCO0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=19838c6a20ab43b2958637fb16508dab&ei=28
Captain Kirk says
The answer to this question is a resounding ‘no’!
libertyORdeath says
I traffick fentynal and human slaves, but don’t bother me about my religious practices!
I wonder if the santeria of the Cartels is covered too?
The Mexican Mafia and CJNG are gonna be thrilled to hear this!
Anarchy is freedom!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One more reason why I strongly continue to believe that for the purposes of the US First Amendment, islam should lose its recognition as a religion. Particularly since the constitution seems to assume that anything that qualifies as a “religion” is necessarily good
OLD GUY says
Totally agree Islam is NOT a religion, it is a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY using religion as a cover.
Namer says
The Catholic Church is only helping the illegals because doing so lets them rack in tens of millions of taxpayers dollars to fund the shelters. Its just a scam and has nothing to do with religion.