On Tuesday June 26, 2018 the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling, dealt a massive blow to democracy and delivered a victory to hatred. The five justices, with one stolen from President Obama, joined with President Trump to discriminate against Muslims. In historic terms, this ruling wiped out a sacred American principle of religious freedom, forged in the 18th century.
On September 17, 1787, after a long hot exhausting summer, America declared in Article VI of the Constitution that ‘No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.’ It began a process of etching religious freedom as a legal right and affirmed it on December 15 1791 in The First Amendment, ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
