[inquest]

Rulings that apply the First to the states via the 14'th, particularly the establishment clause...

...are invalid if they can't explain their reasoning. If they can't explain how actions of the type Moore took violate the actual provisions of the 14th amendment - and none of the ones you cited even attempted to do so - then they don't have a leg to stand on. Of course, they have the raw force of the state, but I thought we were supposed to have "evolved" beyond the notion that might makes right.

[general_re]

If they can't explain how actions of the type Moore took violate the actual provisions of the 14th amendment...

I'm not sure I follow you - what are you looking for that you're not finding?