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Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite
Your comments are getting loopier and loopier.
The Constitution specifically prohibits those two things you listed ...
... and specifally doesn't prohibit states from establishing religions ... and specifally prohibits only the U.S. Congress from doing so.
Our wonderful Founding Fathers said what they meant ... and meant what they said ... no amount of leftist loopiness can change that ... although they certainly never stop trying.
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A couple of our Founding Fathers also noted, wisely, that their guidelines should be revisited and adjusted as the new nation's society progressed and faced new challenges. Funny how we always believe that the founders were strict constitutionalists. They gave us an early set of principles, but it certainly doesn't mean that those principles should be the only things to which we turn. There are so many issues today for which the Constitution provides little or no guidance (I know some might disagree, but that's my opinion). The Ninth Amendment itself states that we should not view the Constitution as an exhaustive list of rights.
Also, it was your beloved conservatives who intervened in the Schiavo case, contravening the principle in the 10th (I believe) Amendment by overriding the decisions of the state of Florida as espoused by its courts.