During our nation's infancy--state constitutions truly reflected the relevance that religion was to play in the public square. For example--the constitutions of Delaware, Vermont and Pennsylvania required that all elected officials openly profess a belief in G-d (and the Holy Scriptures).
But the Founders also realized that certain religions were blatantly insidious--and for that very reason Georgia's constitution (1777)--although permitting religious freedom--issued the following caveat: No religion was to be permitted that was "repugnant to the peace and safety” of the state.
Obviously the Founders (unlike our current leaders--who support the Ground Zero Mosque) knew--in order to protect the citizenry--there had to be limitations on freedom of religion.
What a bunch of wise crackers.
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