What is freedom of religion?

Why this is the answer

The official answer has two halves, and both are part of the right: you can practice any religion, or not practice a religion at all. The government does not get a vote either way. Those halves match the two clauses that open the First Amendment. Congress may make no law respecting an establishment of religion, which USCIS explains as a ban on setting up an official national religion, and it may not prohibit the free exercise of religion, which protects your right to hold any belief or none. The original Constitution already pointed in this direction. Article VI says no religious test may ever be required to hold a federal office, so a person's faith, or lack of one, cannot keep them out of public service. The history behind this goes back well before the Constitution was written. Settlers came to America from Spain, France, Holland, England and other countries, and religious freedom was one of their reasons. The rulers of many of those countries told their people which church to attend and how to worship. In 1620 the Pilgrims became the first group to come to America looking for religious freedom. By the time the Framers met, the principle mattered enough to them that it went into the Bill of Rights. Today this protection belongs to everyone living in the United States, citizens and permanent residents alike. Applicants often give only the first half, "you can practice any religion," and leave out the part about not practicing one. The second half carries equal weight: USCIS describes the First Amendment as protecting the right to hold any religious belief, or none at all. Another slip is answering that the government supports every religion equally; the point is closer to the reverse, since the government stays out of the matter. Give the whole sentence and the answer covers both clauses.