re: #78 Gus

Yeah. They should be able to ban certain religions too don’t you think?

No, and I recently had that argument with my father actually. He favored a “defining of religion” to exclude Islam, which I opposed firmly as incompatible with the 1st Amendment (multiple ‘toleration of religion’ definitions at the time of the passage of the bill of rights expressly mentioned Islam, to make its inclusion within the Amendment’s scope crystal -clear, though I’d not support exclusion even had such definitions not been present). The Constitution is very clear on this point, and the 14th Amendment made the Free Exercise Clause binding on the states.