DaveS wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Well of course you do not explain it away, but I think I will wait for
the lawyers to weigh in.

It doesn't take a law degree to know that if it is unconstitutional
for the federal government to establish a state religion (and it is,
it's right there in the first amendment) then it also unconstitutional
for any state to establish a state religion. That is called the
Supremacy Clause and it is in article VI, paragraph 2 of the United
States Constitution.

One long ago undergrad semester of
Constitutional law (or was it two?) means I know how little I know. So
lets see what the barristers say before we get all worked up.

In Illinois they teach us that in high school civics. I wonder why
those facts about our constitution are omitted from the curriculum
in Utah ? And besides, if it were legal for the state of Utah to
establish a state religion (officially, that is) don't you think
they'd have done so already ?

...
Go Utah.

Yeah, absolutely. But we doubtless disagree on the destination.

--
Ken Fortenberry