
Originally Posted by
LittleFuzzy
Yes it is. The prohibitions on government action built into the Constitution don't apply only to some groups of people, Lewk. They're blanket protections, they cover ALL government action. I'm going to repeat that, Constitutional material like the 1st Amendment are not protections targeted at select people, they are prohibitions targeted at the government. The US government doesn't have any more right to interfere with journalism from foreign sources than it does with the domestic press, for instance, even though the foreign press corps is not composed of US citizens. The US government CANNOT make any exclusionary rule targeted at a single religion, no matter which subsets of people it affects, it is forbidden from singling out specific religions at all. In trying to do so it violates both the establishment and the free exercise clauses of the 1st Amendment.