Anti-religion group triggered by state legislature’s harmless invocation

Published February 21, 2020 11:00am ET



The First Amendment, in its wisdom, protects all kinds of speech and religion. Yes, even ones you don’t agree with.

It’s all protected: from baking a cake or protesting war at school to burning the American flag or reimbursing parents who sent their kids to religious schools for public transportation funds. We don’t have to like flag desecration, be pacifists, agree with religious bakers, or support religious schooling, but the Constitution allows for this all, and that’s the glorious nature of the Bill of Rights.

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