Religion Law Quiz #41 (First Amendment -- Government defining permissive speech)

True or False: The First Amendment is not a majority rule, and government may not seek to define permissible categories of religious speech.

 

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Answer: True.  This quote comes from a 2014 Supreme Court case:

 

The First Amendment is not a majority rule, and government may not seek to define permissible categories of religious speech. Once it invites prayer into the public sphere, government must permit a prayer giver to address his or her own God or gods as conscience dictates, unfettered by what an administrator or judge considers to be nonsectarian.

 

Town of Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway, 572 U.S. 565, 582, 134 S. Ct. 1811, 1822–23, 188 L. Ed. 2d 835 (2014). 

 

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