Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” means the national government cannot pick an official church, fund a state religion, or write laws that exist mainly to favor one faith over another. The point is not that religion is banned from public life. The point is that Washington does not get to be the pope, the bishop, or the tax collector for a favored creed. People remain free to believe; the government does not get to put one belief on the government letterhead.
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