First amendment should give them the ability to freely assemble religiously and to ensure that their religion is not discriminated again. It should be redundant, if it were really aimed at protecting religious freedom, as you note.
But as you also point out, it's unlikely that the aim of the amendment is the promotion of religious freedom and respect in general - and if it is, not only is it redundant but the details are scarily open to allowing lack of education and the dominance of a very particular brand of Christianity. Given the way that reactionary politics are using the appearance of toleration and respect for constitutional law to enshrine legal arguments that actively undermine protection from oppression for political miniorities, that anti-educational stance would be the goal, not an accident to be fixed.
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Date: 2012-08-10 01:10 pm (UTC)But as you also point out, it's unlikely that the aim of the amendment is the promotion of religious freedom and respect in general - and if it is, not only is it redundant but the details are scarily open to allowing lack of education and the dominance of a very particular brand of Christianity. Given the way that reactionary politics are using the appearance of toleration and respect for constitutional law to enshrine legal arguments that actively undermine protection from oppression for political miniorities, that anti-educational stance would be the goal, not an accident to be fixed.