First Amendment Doesn’t Shield Us from Private Infringements

Commentary
Inside the First Amendment

By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director

Every American is protected by the guarantees of the First Amendment, but protections for religious liberty and free expression apply only when government actions are involved — and therein is the rub for some of our fellow citizens.

A former Home Depot employee raised freedom of religion as a defense last week after he was fired for wearing a "One nation…