; Whereas George Washington also said, Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. ; Whereas the right to freedom of speech applies to speech based on religious beliefs, and as Thomas Jefferson stated That the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, not under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty. ; Whereas the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, which protects the right to practice religion, is applied to the States through the 14th Amendment and as stated by the Supreme Court: Freedom of conscience and freedom to adhere to such religious organization or form of worship as the individual may choose cannot be restricted by law. Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940); Whereas the Government may not determine which moral or religious beliefs are acceptable and Religious beliefs need not be acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others in order to merit First Amendment protection. Thomas v. Review Bd. of Indiana Employment Security Div., 450 U.S. 707, 714 (1981); Whereas at the founding of our Nation, it was known even then that nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. (John Adams); Whereas American citizens must be confident that their speech is protected even if others disagree with what they say and as Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote in Cohen v. California But, above all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content.