Headline: "First Amendment doesn’t apply here: N.C. lawmakers push bill for state religion"

See here for the article.

The funny thing about this from my outside standpoint is that such a move would have the opposite effect to that intended.

Here, Christianity is the state religion.  In fact, espiscopalianism, which we call “Church of England” is the state religion.  By law, every school has to teach “scripture” for an hour a week, every school day has to incorporate a religious assembly and five senior Bishops sit ex officio in our legislature.  The result:  2% of the population goes to church on a Sunday and we have something like 40% which doesn’t believe in God at all and most of the balance is agnostic.  An old joke is, “are you religious?  No, I’m Church of England”

Religion grows when it is persecuted.  When it is enforced, it withers.  Throw ‘em to the Lions is a great recruiting sergeant.  Compulsory prayers will drive people away.