{"id":313668,"date":"2010-02-12T12:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32507"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:50:39","slug":"the-only-way-to-reconcile-bodyscanners-with-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/313668","title":{"rendered":"The Only Way to Reconcile Bodyscanners with the First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anthony Gregory<\/p>\n<p>Muslim leaders have declared it a violation of Islam to go through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/blog\/lewrw\/archives\/50290.html\">TSA full body scanners<\/a>. Some will be up in arms about this, but I think they make a valid point. But here&#8217;s a pickle for the establishment: If they force Muslims to go through the scanners, they would be violating Muslims&#8217; freedom of religion. But if they exempt Muslims from the scanners, they would be giving preferential treatment, also in violation of the First Amendment. The solution? As with everything else the government does that violates peaceful religious doctrines, there is only one way to reconcile the intrusive federal program with the religious freedom of all Americans &mdash; abolish the program entirely. If airport security were handled by the market, as it should be, the potential constitutional issue would disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anthony Gregory Muslim leaders have declared it a violation of Islam to go through TSA full body scanners. Some will be up in arms about this, but I think they make a valid point. But here&#8217;s a pickle for the establishment: If they force Muslims to go through the scanners, they would be violating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}