Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy asserted on Sunday that Americans did not have Constitutional rights preventing religion from being imposed upon them. During a Fox News Sunday discussion about recent baptisms of students at Auburn University, co-host Pete Hegseth reported that the Freedom From...

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy asserted on Sunday that Americans did not have Constitutional rights preventing religion from being imposed upon them.

During a Fox News Sunday discussion about recent baptisms of students at Auburn University, co-host Pete Hegseth reported that the Freedom From Religion group was behind a lawsuit against the university.

“It’s not in the constitution!” Campos-Duffy interrupted.

“As Rachel points out, it’s freedom of religion, not freedom from religion,” Hegseth agreed. “So they’re an anti-faith, anti-Christian group.”

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says “that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise,” according to the White House website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Z8-4XgFos

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 year ago

    All of these “you’re going to be MY religion” legal attempts fail the Veil of Ignorance test. It’s so simple to poke holes in their arguments from basic logic and basic empathy that it’s almost tough to address it because it’s so stupid from the outset.