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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (73767)9/9/2003 7:36:39 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Once the rationale of the injunctions in the First Amendment are understood as protecting freedom of conscience, it is no great stretch to consider freedom of conscience a "privilege or immunity", and therefore to extend the principle to the states

So now you have an extrapolation perched on top of an extrapolation. The amendment doesn't say that "the freedom of conscience shall be respected", and if it did its meaning would be so unclear that it would be unconstitutionally vague if it where not itself part of the constitution.

Tim
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