Reply #163: If they didn't have the assumed "right' there would've been no need for the DNC in the first place

[WildEyedLiberal]

The entire concept of the DNC is predicated on the idea that solicitors have the right to call your private phone number. Even now you have to opt-in to the DNC, or you did at its inception at any rate - I'm not sure now. But now we're getting into the territory of laws vs. Constitutionally guaranteed liberties - essentially, you have no Constitutional right to keep solicitors from calling you or knocking on your door. However, your state, or the US Congress, can always pass a law changing that, hence the DNC list. (By the way, the DNC list only applies to private for-profit business solicitations. I know because I was a university fundraising telemarketer and had to deliver that spiel many times to angry alumni who threatened to sue me for violating the DNC list.)

My original point was that no, there is no broadly defined "right" to prevent religious people from soliciting people. The manner in which they may do so can of course be regulated by local laws, but there is nothing in the Constitution that says religious organizations can't cold call random people and deliver a spiel. The First Amendment right to freedom from religious prohibits the government from endorsing any religion or coercing you into observing any manner of religious practices. It doesn't really have anything to do with interactions between private citizens.