People are being killed all over the world in the name of one religion. Are we going to keep pretending this religion's beliefs isn't at odds with our own written law?
If I owned a newspaper it's headline Saturday morning would have read 'Freedom of Religion' with a large picture of all the dead French in the road.
They are not allowing us freedom from their religion, and thus, do not belong in our countries that share this ideal.
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[–] fuck_communism 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No, and I'm too lazy to get one. Check the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History. It's concise yet reasonably thorough.
And Puritans were essentially Anglicans who thought The Church was still "too Catholic," they recognized Anglicanism as a "true religion" (unlike Catholicism), but felt it needed further reform.
True, but that was not the primary motive behind the Establishment Clause at the time of writing, it's worth noting that the last phrase in Article 6 is "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States," which, I think (opinion), alludes more to your point than to the future establishment clause.