[RegulatorCountry]

The fact that some feel this opens the opportunity for states to establish a state religion is deeply troubling. Such an establishment would be created, I am sure, for the greatest of moral reasons, but such reasons can and do degenerate into abusive practices.

It's not a "feeling" Satindoll. As I mentioned to you upthread, establishment of a State Church was not prohibited to the States under the "establishment clause," it was prohibited to the national government. Many States had a State Church well into the 1800's, others disestablished their State Church not long after ratification.

[SatinDoll]

And why did they disestablish those churches?

[cizinec]

Many states? Well into the 1800s?

Massachussetts was the last state which had an unenforced state religion, which was formally removed in 1833. Most states/colonies had rempved their stste religions before the end of the War of Independence was even over.

That you put your overstated and misleading arguments squarely in the Tory/Royalist camp speaks volumes.