Without going back and reading it, just off the top of my head, I thought it said that the government could not establish a religion.
The quotation marks I used in that post splitting it into two separate sections add up to what the First Amendment actually says regarding religion.
That’s what it does say...How people have put a different interpretation on it all these years is beyond me. It’s exactly what the poster has posted...
The Danbury Baptists did not want the Govt. to be able to make being a member of (another) Protestant Denomination a requirement to serve in Govt. That’s all the letter of separation concerned. Nothing More. Scalia said the (modern) interpretation of the 1st Amendment and Separation of Church and State was WRONG!!