In America you can't be forced to do anything against your religion, correct??

Answer 1

Not necessarily. You have freedom to exercise your faith, however if your faith infringes on someone else's rights, you do not have the right to take it that far.

More freedom is generally granted to monotheisms than polytheistic traditions, as Native Americans have had a long history of persecution.

Answer 2

Generally the answer is that you cannot be compelled to do something that is against your religion. For instance working on sunday if your religion prohibits it. But to balance that off, you cannot be guaranteed a job if the job is to work sundays. And, as other people have noted, there may be religious observances that your religion requires that may, in fact, interfere with your neighbors' free exercise of their own rights (e.g. you sacrificing them to The Sun God) that would obviously allow the authorities to step in and prevent you from free exercise of your religion. But in that case still, you are not compelled to do something against your religion so much as enjoined from free exercise of some feature of your religion (it's only a matter of being forced to do something against the religion if the religion requires the sacrifice). The strict answer to your question is generally, yes, you are correct.

Answer 3

Yes and No. What is in the Constitution is that :

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

What this means is that Congress can not pass laws regulating, controling or forbidding the exercise of a religion.

In practice, this is bent, twisted and changed at will. Laws are passed, and then the courts interpret those laws, which means that, in effect, laws have been passed regulating, controlling, and sometimes forbidding the free exercise of a religious belief.

So, the answer is Yes and No. It depends on what you are refering to, and how it is interpreted by the State.

Answer 4

Incorrect. Say your religion involves charming snakes and during a service a child gets bitten by a snake and according to your religion if the child is meant to live, god will save them and the congregation does nothing. Think someones not going to jail. Think again.
Freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights guarantees that there will not be any national religion.

Answer 5

To a certian degree. You can't be forced to say the Pledge of Allegience, for example, if your religion prohibits swearing oaths. If you want to sacrifice babies, though, you may be out of luck. Like others before me have said, you can do things as long as they don't infringe on the rights of others. You may want to check the laws in your state and talk to a religious figure about the issue.

Answer 6

WRONG. Oh yes you can! If your beliefs interfere with the good of the country, or the rights of others, definitely you can be prohibited from doing said things, and prosecuted in some cases if you persist.

Freedom OF religion, also means freedom FROM religion. Each case is individual, and would have to be prosecuted, so it's impossible to give some blanket answer that covers that question.

Answer 7

Anything not contrary to the common laws are allowed. For instance you cannot set up a religion that prescribes unwilling human sacrifices. For the most part though you get compensated for your beliefs, like if you don't want to work on Saturday for religious reasons you can typically get that day off, or if you don't want to eat meat you aren't forced to; if you want to travel on a certain day you can, etc.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Wrong. You can be. You can also be prohibited from doing things that are REQUIRED as part of religious worship. I have been in situation where, in order to stay out of jail I had to not only do things that were in absolute opposition to my religious teaching as part of my probation, but was also prohibited form ahving access to the things necessary to meet even the most basic requirements of that worship, under the auspice of civil law they can and do impact religious worship without actually directing it at any particular religion.

Answer 10

There is a certain amount of "Religious Immunity" under the Law; but then, you need to be more specific to get the correct Answer!!!!