“It isn’t expressly forbid so it is OK?”
Oh puleeze!!!! get a grip!@!!!. I did not say slavery was “O.K.” I did not say slavery was MORALLY O.K. just because it was NOT forbidden by the Constitution, for almost 100 years.
I said as a matter of law, Constitutional law, (a) the Constitution did not forbid slavery, the Constitution allowed slavery to be legal, until after the civil war and specifically after the post-civil-war amendments ADDED the prohibition against slavery to the U.S. Constitution and (b) Linoln went to war against seccession, not slavery; if the south had been able to accept the restrictions on the growth of slavery (which is all they were, not the extinguishing of it) that federal law was imposing, there would not have been seccession and there would not have been the civil war, though slavery in all regards would not have yet ended. That’s not a moral judgement of moral right or wrong. It’s a matter of what was and was not mandated by the Constitution.
So let me understand your position.
1. Do the states have the power under the Constitution to mandate support of a religion through taxation?
2. Do the states have Constitutional rights to mandate support of a religion through taxation?
3. Do the states have Natural rights to mandate support of a religion through taxation?