[tpaine]

Congress [nor any level of any of our governments] shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. - tpaine

You added the [bracketed] phrase to suggest that the Bill of Rights always applied to the States.

Indeed I did. Our US Constitution and its Amendments have always been the supreme Law of the Land, since ratification. [See Art VI]

The Barron ruling conclusively proves that this was not the case. Stop claiming it was.

The Barron ruling does not "prove" that this was the case.
Stop claiming it did.

[Tailgunner Joe]

The Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states, just as the Founders intended.

Your claims are either willful ignorance or lies.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Your militant atheist revision of US history is a subversive assault on the US Constitution and our legal history. Stop spreading your Anti-American commie lies.