[PhilipFreneau]

>> North Carolina flatly refused to ratify the Constitution in the absence of amendments in the nature of a Bill of Rights. Virginia and North Carolina proposed identical guarantees of religious freedom:

>> "[A]ll men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and . .
. no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established, by law, in preference to others.
-from the dissent-

>> The lines above totally destroy William Rehnquist's contention that "Separation of Church and State" was an unwanted 'myth'.

There you go again, sonny. When are you going to stop misrepresenting the meaning of the First Amendment?

[tpaine]

When are you gonna stop making inane comments? Give your obsession a rest, -- go bother someone else.