The ONLY "government" the First Amendment points to is the Federal government, NOT state government.
CONGRESS shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise... Amendment I.
The First Amendment is pointed DIRECTLY at the feds and NOWHERE else.
All state constitutions include freedom of speech and religion. For instance, Colorado:
Section 4. Religious freedom. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever hereafter be guaranteed; and no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege or capacity, on account of his opinions concerning religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be construed to dispense with oaths or affirmations, excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the good order, peace or safety of the state. No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship, religious sect or denomination against his consent. Nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
Section 10. Freedom of speech and press. No law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech; every person shall be free to speak, write or publish whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuse of that liberty; and in all suits and prosecutions for libel the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury, under the direction of the court, shall determine the law and the fact.
The Court didn’t have lawful right to meddle in the laws of Tesas either, compelling us to assert perverted acts as lawful.
Nor in the matter of same sex abominamarriages.
Nor in Roe v Wade and so many other things.
If I understand you correctly, I respectfully disagree.
Although the rights expressly protected by the Bill of Rights originally applied only to the feds, when the states ratified the 14th Amendment (ratified under questionable circumstances), they committed themselves to likewise respect the rights that they amend the Constitution to expressly protect.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
“The ONLY “government” the First Amendment points to is the Federal government, NOT state government.”
You obviously never took a civics class, read the Federalist papers, or studied history.
In no way does it make sense that the Congress cannot abridge free speech but the States can.
You’re ignorant and retarded.