Commentary: How the First Amendment is supposed to work

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads, “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 to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”The various clauses found within this single amendment both work with each other and against each other. The firing of Hayley Geftman-Gold, a former v