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Keyes says there is a:

-- "right of the people of the states to live under a government that reflects their religious inclination."

---- Sorry, but that is a communitarian idea, not one you can find in our constitution. A religious majority in a state has no delegated power to declare their religion to be government approved.

Such a concept is repugnant to the religious freedom of all their peers who must live in that same state.

The state religion idea was rejected firmly when Utah applied for admission, and it took Utah almost 50 years to come up with a constitution that guaranteed an acceptable republican form of government.

[FBD]

"The state religion idea was rejected firmly when Utah applied for admission, and it took Utah almost 50 years to come up with a constitution that guaranteed an acceptable republican form of government."

- That was a case of "establishment" which interfered with free "expression".

Again, you are -(I believe) confusing "establishment", with "expression."

I have to leave my office now. I thoroughly enjoyed the debate, FRiend.

Thanks!
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