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And if my Grandma had two tires attached to her feet, she would be a bicycle, but the reality is she does not, and while they should not be, corporations have personhood. Look up Corporate personhood, and you will see that since 1819 the Supreme court has upheld that corporations hold the same rights as individuals. Sorry, there is a difference between what should be, and what is!
The Constitution protects your right to free speech. Do you really understand what is being protected?
The Constitution protects your freedom of religion. Do you really understand how it is protected?
The Constitution says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..." Then in the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments) the freedoms of the people are listed. Another way to look at it is the "Limitations of the Government" are listed.
Therefore, the 1st amendment protects your right to religious freedom, by saying "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;". If you read it carefully, you will see that the intention was to prohibit the government from making any law for or against religion. Even a law protecting you against someone elses religion would be illegal. However, it does not protect you from the Jehovah's Witness trying to give you that Watchtower, nor does it protect that JW from getting yelled at by me to get the fuck off my porch. It does however, protect the JW from having a cop arrest them for giving out the Watchtower.
Get it, it protects you from the Government not from other people.
The same amendment goes on to add "or abridging the freedom of speech". If you fix it, it would read "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech". Again NO LAW shall be made. In other words, I can tell you to shut up, but the government cannot.
These statements are pretty straightforward and absolute. The quicker we all get this the better off we will be.
So your statement is true for corporations and individuals. So you could opt out too. Like it or not this is how the founders wanted it to be. And I am glad for that. Now lets make sure the government knows that these are limits on them not us!
Startup advice - make sure what you do is not something someone else does!