Rather than mouth current religious ideas, one has to look at the context of the original decisions, hundreds of years ago, and their context, given a weak heterogeneity of religious exiles and colonists here for other reasons, and the hundreds of years of religious wars they and their ancestors had lived;
religious 'tolerance' was what modern political people were reduced to because the alternative was often, even among the multiplicity of purely western Christian sectarians, not survivable.
And contrast it with what even an ideal scenario might have looked like, back then;
and contrast that with the dramatic political and religious changes America has gone through;
and contrast that with the dramatic changes the world around the US has gone through, and has come to look like, politically and religiously;
and contrast that with the history of Islam, and its relations with Western Europe,
to begin to decide how to proceed.
The conflicts between the orthodox and muslims, in Eastern Europe, does not bode well for religious 'toleration' between Islam and the US, going forward.
Certain types of religious belief are compatible, loosely, or at least reconciled, after a long struggle, with separation of church and state; others are not.
Why invite disaster?
How many mosques are there in, eg, Japan?
Two: Fukuoka, and Kobe. Until 09, there was only one, Kobe, apparently.
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