text: You are dead wrong to believe “The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the United States has the right to practice his or her own [religion]”
  
  What it ACTUALLY says is that “CONGRESS - - repeat CONGRESS ! - - shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion - - [the establishment clause] - - or prohibiting the free exercise thereof - - [the free exercise clause]
  
  Now while many states did at some point include this in their individual constitutions, thanks to the tenth amendment, they were under no legal obligation to do so. As a result some of the original thirteen states did indeed for awhile establish a state religion as for example Catholicism in Maryland and the [Episcopal] Church of England in Virginia.
  
  What is needed, one respectfully suggests is for ALL our fellow Americans to obtain a COPY of the Constitution and then from time to time actually READ it. That way we would at least all be on the same page as it were.