Recently, President Barack Obama and others in his administration (including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) have been using the term "freedom of worship." That's a significant departure from the constitutional phrase with which most Americans are familiar: "freedom of religion."
Those words have been use interchangebly but politicians for decades by politicians both republican and democrat alike, yet you only make issue of it now, when it it's used by a president that people of your ilk like to paint as being "anti american", "foreign", and "anti christian".
The truth is that changing the word "religion" to "worship" drastically changes what is protected.
Now it doesn't, If for no other reason that the freedom of religion gurantees you the right to worship whatever the fuck you choose. Neither Obama nor anyone else has attempted too or so much as suggested that the wording of the 1st ammendment be changed.
Read the words of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." That "free exercise" wording protects those whose religion entails much more than worship.
And no one, including President Obama and Sec. State Clinton has suggested otherwise.
The Left -- specifically the ACLU -- has been extremely successful in misleading the American public into believing that the "separation of church and state" is a constitutional principle. It is not.
The words "separation of church and state" may not appear in the constitution, but the priciple certainly does, Freedom of Religion absolutely requires freedom from religion. Without the latter the former is simply meaningless.
As a result, far too many people of faith, including pastors, have confined themselves and their worldview within the church walls while godless philosophies and agendas overwhelm the public square.
The public square? Were that the case then why is it that I cannot go a single day without seeing someone or other on the news telling me that <insert inane religious drivel here> must be made into law because thats the way "god" intended.
Religion hasn't been banished from the public square and to claim otherwise is a damnned lie, pure and simple. Moreover, the public square isn't what you are after, you want religion, and in particular your religion exclusively, to exercise undue and underserved influence over government and it's policies.
Christians are called to live our religion, not just observe services on Sundays
But what you are bitching about is essentially not being able to make everyone else "live" your religion and obey it's tenets by force of law.
An attempt to bamboozle the American people again into believing that the First Amendment only protects the "freedom of worship" will lead to banishing religious expression outside of the church setting in all its forms.
Expression, religious or otherwise, is and always has been protected by the freedom of speech and expression, not the freedom of religion which gurantees your right to follow the religion, or lack thereof, of your choice and to not have any one religion or that religions beliefs and tenets imposed on you by the government. I will also point out, once again, that no one in the current administration, or any other for that matter, has suggested or insinuated anything even remotely like the scenario you suggest.
This entire diatribe is nothing more than the typical fundamentalist persecution fetish card. A pathetic attempt to elicit anger, fear, and pity from some segment of the populace by inventing imaginary persecution of that segment. There is a name for that deplorable tactic, The Politice of Fear and the Warfare of Cowards.