About one hundred years after the Constitution was proposed and ratified, Pope Leo XIII used the first commandment to declare it “unlawful to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, of speech, or writing, or of worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.”34 Leo had the gall to title this order On the Nature of Human Liberty. The shackling of the human mind sanctioned by Leo’s encyclical is sought by most religions and would destroy the freedoms of the First Amendment. The Judeo-Christian first commandment and the US First Amendment fundamentally
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