[goldstategop]

Exactly. Liberal judges and lawyers have twisted the Establishment Clause to mean freedom from religion. The Founders had in mind to guarantee freedom of religion. The two are very different doctrines and the application of the former has turned access to the public square into a zero sum game in which one side must win and the other side must lose. Naturally the losing side, usually religious believers, are none too happy about being reconciled to being told to shut up and the not too surprising (and inevitable) result is that the culture war simply resumes in full force on another front.

[powderhorn]

Exactly. Liberal judges and lawyers have twisted the Establishment Clause to mean freedom from religion. The Founders had in mind to guarantee freedom of religion.

I think they also had very much in mind freedom from religion. At the time the Constitution was signed, one didn't have to look very far back in history to find catholics and protestants in a death struggle. Without freedom from religion the mad mullahs (of whatever faith) would seek to control the nation.