-— Such church-state functioning and alliance is alien to the NT church. -—
In Catholic countries the Church was separate from the State, even if the State religion was Catholicism. It sounds like a contradiction, but there is a real distinction.
The Constitution allows states to have established churches, though they no longer do. It’s a subject worth reconsidering, because we need an intellectual basis for suppressing Mohammedanism.
I am sure the old society of the Danbury Baptist letters would have something to say about that:) But yes it seems from the documents I've seen that states voluntarily denounced an established denomination. However, even if a state would do so, they still must respect the First Amendment. So if Massachusetts decides to go back to the mandatory parish system (not likely) and instead establishes a gay Unitarian official church (that is likely), I don't think even the good folks of MA would go for it. Most states shed the official state denomination/church deal when we were all bleeding next to each other fighting for independence.
IMO, it's a bad idea. Why? Because a few years from now the Muzzies may have a majority in some states to enact their own state religion. They seem eager to do so with their push for Sharia law in their little (and now growing) ghettos.
And let's be honest. Established denomination churches in states would give that denomination with political power, and a priviledge in property. Our founders in what they wrote and in deed were against such. See VA prior to the Revolution.