WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Don’t Impose Your Religious Beliefs on Me

There is a growing trend in American society to define the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to freely exercise one’s religious faith, or lack thereof, as meaning you can think and say whatever you want about such matters insider your church building. But keep it to yourself, keep it private, because “religion has no place in the public square.”

But as the Colson Center’s Sarah Stonestreet points in this “What Would You Say” video, the rights embodied in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, including that of freely exercising one’s faith or lack of it is a natural right, a right that government is obligated to protect.

That means limiting the right to freely exercise one’s faith or lack of it to the privacy of your home or your church building is to relegate a God-given right to second-class status. Check it out:

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