The First Amendment to our Constitution clearly states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," which until recent times was plainly understood to mean that Congress, that is the legislative arm of our government, could make no law establishing a national religion, such as in England and their Anglican church, which is the national and established church of England. In addition, the free exercise of one's religious beliefs was an established citizen right of the First Amendment, indicating that each citizen within America had a free right of conscience in regards to their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, our activist judicial branch of government, in their lust to establish a secular State, has determined that there should be a wall of separation of religion from the government, which has been further translated to mean, that religion has no place in the public square, such as in our public schools, or in governmental decrees, and so forth. What our government has essentially mandated is that God and all his accouterments, must to the greatest extent possible, be excised from our public conscience, and thereby only remain in our own private spheres.
The whole point of the Bill of Rights, of which religious freedom is the very first right so listed, is that the Constitution as written, would not have passed the required amount of nine of the thirteen States without it being an integral part of the Constitution. The debate and the wording of our religious liberty were important to all the delegates of the thirteen States, to which, New Hampshire proposed that: "Congress shall make no laws touching religion, or to infringe the rights of conscience." Although, those words ended up not being the words used in our First Amendment, these words if they had been used, might well have pushed back the humanist wave of the 20th century which has subverted our religious liberty granted to us by our Constitution until the present day. Not only that, the statement not to infringe the rights of conscience, is extremely powerful, powerful enough, that it would in a fair court of justice, permit each and every citizen to invoke such a right, if sincerely held, to be a conscientious objector so as to not be forcefully drafted or conscripted to fight in foreign wars of no purpose or point, especially ones that seem to serve only the purpose of empire, profit, or bloodlust.
The thing is though that the First Amendment which provides us with the free exercise of religion as we see it is in effect, on the same page as having the rights of conscience to do what we believe to be right by our God. What our Founding Fathers knew then, and apparently what those at the highest forms of our governmental judicial system refuse to admit to today, is that there is a Court beyond all Courts, and that our most precious rights, our inalienable rights, do not come from governments, long established or not, but from our Creator, and it is only in recognition that there is a righteous God who governs the affairs of men, in which these menthereby derived their just powers from the consent of the governed, that brings greatness to a nation, and to take away the pillars of religious liberty from the people, willinevitably bring forth the terrible collapse of this once, great nation.