[inquest]

The 14th amendment incorporation clause extended all federal rights to any citizen in the United States. This means that states can no longer establish an official religion.

The second statement follows from the first only if you could demonstrate that establishing an official religion actually violates someone's rights.

[Mr. Silverback]

The second statement follows from the first only if you could demonstrate that establishing an official religion actually violates someone's rights.

The Founders thought it did, which is why the establishment clause in the First Amendment exists in the first place.

State religions, after all, are the biggest reason the first colonists came over here in the first place.