09/22/2022
The right to religious freedom is under attack not only by woke mobs and their allies in the legacy media, but also by overreaching government. So I am fighting back!
I have joined Louisiana to a legal brief opposing a public transit authority’s policy denying the First Amendment rights of a religious group to advertise on public transportation.
This authority lumped in “religious affiliation advertising” with others forms of advertising it forbids: ads for “tobacco, alcohol, or related products” and ads containing “profane language, obscene materials,” “images of nudity,” or “depiction[s] of graphic violence,” among others.
By treating them alike, they send the perverse message that religious speech is too controversial, too taboo, and too dangerous for public discussion – a notion that flies in the face of our nation’s history and tradition celebrating religious discourse and the First Amendment’s dual guarantee of the freedoms of speech and religious exercise.