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LOL!! Then you better tell the inhabitants of Massachusetts they were wrong then. They REQUIRED a tax on all inhabitants to support the state church. And guess what? It was Constitutional. Several other states also required elected officials to have a belief in God Almighty, even with the 'test' clause in the US Constitution. Guess what? Never challenged and Constitutional. Indians? Don't give me the Indians belief system. The way they were treated by previous generations goes to show how much respect the Founders and their descendants had for their belief systems. And yes, I am partially Cherokee so I know what was done to some of my ancestors

I truly love listening about the 'freedom' the Founders allowed in colonial days. The way you put it they were running from house to house sodomizing each other behind closed doors only to take a moment to do drugs. No, the historical fact shows your attitude to not be in step with what the Founders of this nation believed and did

Yup! I just have the broadly framed verbiage of the U.S. Constitution and centuries of case law backing my point up, that's all.

Religious freedom is a great thing. And Islam that is a long time faith is protected under the auspices of this Constitutional guarantee, as are those that still practice Native American religiosity.

On a wild-fire at the Yakama Indian Reservation I thanked an elder for the Seven Drums ceremony they had held in our honor. He simply stated, "A hundred years ago, we were hung for doing this. I am glad we have gotten rid of the abomination of the religious intolerance that Manifest Destiny once compelled people too follow. I am glad those Yakamas are free again to keep their religion as part of their culture.

There are too many people that care about the U.S. Constitution to let anything like that old inappropriate unconstitutional behavior from manifesting itself in the United States again. We understand the Constitution is there to protect small groups against the whims and caprice of larger, more powerful groups, not the other way around as you would have us believe.