[djf]

YOU were the one that mentioned it protecting the official state religions, not me. Nine of the original 13 colonies had official religions. So all I'm asking you, sir, is how did that get absolutely reversed to mean a ban on all religions? And you can cease coughing up your special ed crap, because my bookshelf is full, I have assembled and read a lot of a cd containing hundreds of thousands of pages of common law documents, and the last IQ test I took showed it near 160. So please explain the reversal.

[tpaine]

You're confused. Nothing was 'reversed' & there is no "ban on all religions".

The 1st has always applied to all levels of government, dispite the compromise wording about 'congress'.

-- Which wording, in any case, was made moot by the clear words of the 14th. -- Learn to live with them. Life liberty, & property rights are worth protecting.

In fact, why would any rational conservative WANT the states to have the power to violate our BOR's?