Now, Ms. Martinek, as we are listening and we hear about these First Amendment rights of yours, cumulatively, that have been trampled, there is something particularly egregious, I think, about the first of our first freedoms--that is, our freedom to worship, our freedom to avoid government compulsion as it relates to matters of faith.
Roskam defends First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of worship.
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