[Moby Grape]

You LOST the bet....The letter to the Danbury Baptist is NOT the Contitution. Secondly, Jefferson attended church on FEDERAL PROPERTY the next Sunday AFTER he wrote the letter, as did a majority of the Supreme Court....The FIRST draft of the "Congress shall pass no law...." provision used the words "no demonination"...It is CLEAR in the records of the debate, before the final version was written, that the INTENT was not that religion would be prohibited in the affairs of civil government. To ATTEMPT to say otherwise is an exercise in ignorance.There is NO DOUBT, when you examine the debate, that the intent was to assure that the USA did not have a CHURCH of AMERICA, as there had been a Church of England. John Adams said that the Amercian Revolution created a bond between the principles of Chrisitanity and civil government, and if it did not that "it was in vain."

[Storm Orphan]

The letter to the Danbury Baptists shows specifically what the First Amendment's intent is.

Sorry, but you the evidence is against your position.