The separation of church and state (#1981)

On this fourth of July here in America we all pause for the day and celebrate the formation of our country. What we don't do a lot of is discuss the reason why we needed to form a new country from the empire that previously ruled us. We were subjected to rules that benefited the Kingdom and not so much our new land of America. We were also persecuted by the church to either accept religion in the established way or suffer injustice and cruelty. When we had finally had enough we fought and won our independence from our masters and then established a Constitution with a Bill of Rights. The beauty of the first amendment to our Constitution is that not only did we acknowledge the prohibition of any religious centered law, but we also protected the right to worship any religion. Clearly a separation between the two. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." It still mystifies me that the current 5 majority conservatives justices on our high court are unwilling to follow the clear distinction they were sworn to protect. Surely there are unclear areas of our Constitution that need refinement and over the years that has been the accepted practice, however in the area of separation of church and state, there is no misunderstanding. Yet the conservative majority on the Supreme Court would have us believe that to be the case. I am no constitutional scholar, however, even a layperson is able to distinguish the intent of our Constitution as it relates to the separation of church and state. We are witnessing the intentional dismantling of our Constitution by a force of conservatives who have but one ultimate goal, to remove the part of our first amendment that states; "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion,...".