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Freedom Of Religion In America

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Freedom of Religion Freedom of religion is the right of a person, or community to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. All people in the United States of America have freedom of religion, but do we really? In the first amendment is states that every person in the United States has the right to practice his or her own religion, or no religion at all. Technically yes, we do, if we don’t break the law. There are things that we are forced to do. Yet people refuse, so the government just goes along with it and says ok. We don’t really have religious freedom. Catholic hospitals, which are almost everywhere in the U.S., were supposed to have abortion pills and other things that help kill the life of a

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