Now that Indonesia is a democracy, the constitutional guarantee of freedom of worship might be thought to trump all other arguments.

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"We should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the Churches not the courts, " he said.

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He called upon the world to embrace four fundamental freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

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One of the best remembered moments is the declaration of the "Four Freedoms" in Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union -- the freedom from want, the freedom from fear, the freedom of speech and the freedom of worship.

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The United States has the oldest democracy in the world, but we constantly have to, as citizens, work to make sure that it is working to include everybody, to make sure that the freedoms that are in our Constitution -- the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship -- that those are practiced and observed.

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Forget the fact the 92% of Americans believe in God or a higher power (Pew study) or that this country was founded on the notion of freedom to worship as you choose, faith is just not a welcomed subject outside your home.

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