I don't know preceisely what this is getting at. Is this a proposal to end first amendment rights of people to criticize a religion? I don't agree with that. One should be free to criticize any religion in public as a private person. Just look at the law in Australia punishing a Christian pastor for criticizing Islam, and the proposed law in UK that would punish the same thing.
"Is this a proposal to end first amendment rights of people to criticize a religion?"
Read the text of the amendment and ignore the misleading headline... it does nothing of the kind. It simply preserves (returns) the right to engage in voluntary, noncoercive religious expression in public places.
You can take it to the bank that should this amendment pass the first group of people to embrace it will be the moslems.
Doesn't our Republican controlled congress have something better to do with their time? First we are visited yet again by another flag burning amendment and now this. Meanwhile our borders are a free-for-all zone and the USSC just ruled that private property really belongs to the State. They need to quit wasting time with these pointless "feel good" amendments and actually do something about the issues that truly and adversely affect people!
It does seem that such an amendment shouldn't be necessary, but it may be. The act of at least trying to pass such an amendment may call attention to the fact that it appears that Christianity, the Ten Commandments, or anything that relates to the Judeo-Christian God are the only things that seems to be unprotected from political correctness, "hate-speech", etc. If other religious are attacked or questioned, whoever made the statement is viewed as "intolerant".
And look at all the trash Hollywood and "artists" have generated that has been anti-God. Maybe such an amendment, or the attempt to pass such legislation, will stop at least some of that bile.