George Washington tries to give comfort to religious communities in the newly formed United States

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https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-united-baptist-churches-in-virginia/

"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it; and if I could now conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. For you, doubtless, remember that I have often expressed my sentiment, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."

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Just an additional note or reference. Baptists, Congregationalists etc. in the late 1600's were persecuted in England and in various European countries and fled to the colonies for the ability to practice their faith in peace and not be arrested. The last thing they would have wanted is the state telling anyone who they have to believe in or picking one religion over another to be taught in public schools

[Norrrm]

1. Which religion should be in charge?

Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?no-ist=

[Peacetrain]

2. No religion should be in charge of course

And isn't it a wonder that the very groups who were seeking private rights of worship without being hammered by other groups belief systems would want 250 years later, to have their belief system be force fed to others. (and of course all Baptists come in all flavors of spirituality.. from the progressive to the regressive. I am just using this historical moment as an example.)