And you need to understand that all laws are based on somebodys morality and no legislator in any government body has to explain his votes in religious or irreligious terms.
You also need to learn that religious folks have the same rights as irreligious folks to assemble in the public square and have their voices heard.
Under Kennedy’s speechifying this would be disallowed and it came to fruition in Roe with Blackmun bs’ing about the “separation of church and state” which is an extra constitutional law made by old people in black dresses perverting a letter written by Jefferson to a Baptist minister assuring him that government would not interfere in the affairs of his church.
The “free exercise” clause means what it says as does the “establishment clause”. That is what Santorum believes and what Kennedy tried to pervert to get elected. Screw him.
And yes I meant Turkey and wrote Germany vis a vis the missiles. He threw Germany under the bus by allowing the Berlin Wall to be built. Two thoughts scrambled in an old mind. JFK, the myth.
The Danbury Baptists wrote Jefferson because they were afraid of being discriminated against or otherwise marginalized because they were a religious minority. They were afraid that other religions or religious organizations (mostly the Congregationalists) would use the state to oppress them, and told Jefferson that they believed religion was something that was at all times, between individuals and their God. Jefferson wrote back and agreed, and he would agree with what JFK said as well.