Quote:No, that's not what Khan wants.

 

He wants us to recognize that the first amendment of the United States Constitution states that:

 

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

 

Apparently, many of us don't make the connection that providing a religious test for immigration to the United States is, in itself, establishment of a state religion that does not recognize one practiced by about a 5th of the world's population.

 

Despite what the Trumpettes are saying, if the US establishes a true religious test like the one Donald called for on December 7, 2015, it will be in violation of the First Amendment and the Supreme Court will rule so.

 
<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/'>http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/donald-trump-muslim-ban-immigration/</a>

 

So maybe the Khan family (or our own Khan family) would have made it through Donald's ban, maybe not.

 

Here's the key:  If Donald called for a ban on ALL immigration "until our country's representatives can figure out what's going on" then it might have passed the Constitutional test.  But he didn't.  And from what I've learned in the past 16 years, our country's representatives will NEVER figure out what' going on, because they can't even agree that it's hot outside.  So, "believe me" the ban would be permanent.

Except he didn't bring up the First Amendment, he brought up a clause of the Fourteenth. I have no reason to believe Mr. Khan isn't a smart man, and he's got his pocket constitution for reference, so I'm going to go with the speech he gave and not the one y'all are trying to say he meant to give. Freedom of religion is one of the most well known parts of the constitution, even people that haven't read it know that one. Don't you think a man that has his own copy of the constitution knows what part of it he wanted to bring up?

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