It might be useful to those who engage in this debate to read Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom (in Virginia) which was enacted into Virginia law in 1786. It is useful because upon it James Madison based his composition of the religion-related text of the US Constitution's 1st amendment. One should also read Madison's speech to the Congress in 1789 in which he proposed his version of the Bill of Rights which cite by my count about 19 rights one of which was freedom of conscience which the Congress rejected.
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