Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"Perhaps that would be better interperated to mean Congress should make no law respecting 'the wishes' of an established religion. i.e. Making no laws that have solely religious intent, such as creationism, etc...
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Fred...

But that is not what it says, nor, I believe, how it should be interpreted. I view it as saying that congress shall pass no law establishing an official state religion, such as catholicism, methodism, baptist, or whatever. The second half of the clause guarantees that we all have the right to practice our religion without government interference.

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