You're talking ideology; I'm talking common sense.
Btw..have you noticed certain religions do get special treatment? Muslims are allowed to pray in NYC schools. Congress spent $1 million to build a school in Israel for "Black Israelites"(American citizens) from Chicago.
I believe that favors my argument.
Why? Should we censor speech because some don't like what is said? Of course not. Same thing with religion.
I don't care what anyone believes. Neither did the founders. The free exercise of religion was for everyone.
Absurd to claim the founders protected everything from flag burning to teaching about homosexuality in government schools but they wrote the first amendment to ensure that God cannot be seriously mentioned in a the public square.
They didn't. The men who wrote the first amendment attended church in the House of Representatives. They hired clergy to convert the native tribes. They authorized the printing of a bible, they gave land to missionaries, they set aside a day of prayer and thanksgiving, they mandated services in the military, they set aside sections in new townships for the advancement of religion and most of them used the New England Primer (filled with religious teachings) as a textbook when they were children.