free exercise

Judge Kim Wardlaw, writing for the panel, ruled that California’s requirement burdens the families’ free exercise of religion.

As the AP noted, it is a felony in Wisconsin to impede "the free exercise of the franchise at an election."

The first amendment to the US Constitution - known as the Establishment Clause - says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Free exercise of religion is “a disfavored right,” he’s carped in the past, and “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman.”

The Ninth Circuit itself relied on the free exercise clause to overturn a public school’s decision not to recognize a Christian student group that required students to hold Christian beliefs to join in Fellowship of Christian Athletes v.