Post 4: 1st Amendment.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=23366
    

   This article is about how a city council in Conneticut stated that Muslim prayers  by Muslim Americans would  not be included in their city council meeting. The situation worsened when officials denied the right to have any prayer involved in this meeting. Though after a plenty of emails and a lot of personal letters and threats, the citizens were granted a moment of silence to where they can individually pray and have religious worship. The citizens also protested against this event with prayer, but their voices were not heard. This is a direct violation of the 1st Amendment.
     The first amendment of the Bill of rights states "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". This amendment not only gives people the right to believe and practice their own religion, but also the right to petition. The unfortunately part about it, is that it doesn't state where it can or can not be done. The first amendment does give these AMERICAN citizens the right to live their life the way that they want to, but unfortunately they can not because of ignorant individuals who are unwilling to accept this fact. The Bill of rights was made to help with the rights of an American individual.
    In my personal opinion these individuals should have continued to protest and if not they should have sued the city of Hartford for their irresponsibility to enforce the 1st Amendment. I would have personally pursued this situation more because it is a national right. The lack of rights in America is considered prejudice. Prejudice should have died within the U.S. when slavery was abolished. Unfortunately peace will not be able to come forth because people are unwilling to accept new things in life.