By author of the Bill of Rights I mean that the person who took pen to paper and wrote the actual words that went into the Bill of Rights was James Madison. Editor would suggest he gave no intellectual input to the content. Why do you find it necessary to try to denigrate the Father of our Constitution? Just because his ideas about what the first Amendment meant disagrees with your own?
Actually, I think it is you who are denigrating George Mason, the Father of the Bill of Rights. I'm simply setting the record straight.
The reason why I brought this all up is because of your claim that Madison's “reading (and writing)of the 1st Amendment is exactly as I understand it to be meant.” Well, both his and your understanding of what the First Amendment ought to mean are not in-line with what the founders intended. In fact, the founders so disagreed with Madison on this point, that they threw out the very amendment he proposed that comports with yours (and his) vision of the same.