What if it was Church of The Lukumi Babalu Aye instead of Riverdale Baptist trying to build a school in Bristol? Or what if it was Burger King who wanted to put up a 250-square-foot electronic sign in Lutherville? What if an incoming president wanted to kill a chicken as the inauguration prayer?

Would anybody cry government suppression or establishment of religion? Probably not. And that cuts to the heart of our nation’s two-century debate over exactly what our Founders meant in our First Amendment.