NY Gov, federal court scale the wall of separation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Declaring one acceptable theological position on any issue while seated atop the pinnacle of state authority, and at the same time seeking to restrict the practice of any contradictory theological belief would simultaneously violate both the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment (applied to states by the U.S. Supreme Court and passage of the 14 Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses).
49% : When the Founders drafted the religious liberty and free speech clauses of the First Amendment to prohibit an official state church, protect the right to live according to conscience, and to speak even unpopular opinions, could they have envisioned a day when government officials would look with such virulent disdain upon the views of their fellow citizens?

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