The State of the First Amendment survey, conducted each year since 1997 by the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center, tests Americans’ knowledge of their core freedoms and samples their opinions on First Amendment issues of the day.
The 2015 survey questions covered topics including the use of Confederate flags on license plates, perceptions of news media bias, photography of police by the public, the use of police “body cams” and whether the public should have access to images from these cameras. Other topics included religious objections to providing wedding-related services to same-sex couples, the impact on religious liberty of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, and whether cartoonists should be free to draw images of the Prophet Muhammad. CONT.
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