I mean I haven't done the research, but I think you're implying they didn't. To say that the word "religion" in the first amendment only applies to Christianity or specifically Protestantism though, seems super far-fetched. I mean the Supreme Court unanimously concluded that the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye was included in the First Amendment so...
As a whole? Not like what we do today. Accordingly to some accounts Thomas Jefferson even had to read the Quran to update himself on the relations of America with Islamic nations.
You think the Framers didn't know about Islam?
Do you think they were considering all of their Muslim citizens when they were writing the Constitution?
I mean I haven't done the research, but I think you're implying they didn't. To say that the word "religion" in the first amendment only applies to Christianity or specifically Protestantism though, seems super far-fetched. I mean the Supreme Court unanimously concluded that the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye was included in the First Amendment so...
As a whole? Not like what we do today. Accordingly to some accounts Thomas Jefferson even had to read the Quran to update himself on the relations of America with Islamic nations.
But hasn't the Supreme Court interpreted the first amendment to include Islam?