First Amendment

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from
making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. Why is the Duck Dynasty controversy NOT a First Amendment issue?

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