You saw what Jefferson wrote, and what he meant, what more do you want? Or did you live back then and know him. I guess you are the all mighty and know all. Through quotes of Jefferson, he clearly meant a separation of church and state. But this is all i'm gonna say, you seem to have it all figured out being a higher authority and all. Here is one point of view, but i'm sure you will pass it off as a biased opinion from a leftist site.
http://sonsofliberty.org/sanesociety/religion_and_1st_amendment.html The word "state" also has an interesting usage, the one most prevalent during the 18th century being "a body of people occupying a defined territory and organized under a sovereign government"! So Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state" was being precisely correct: the intent of the first clause of the First Amendment was to prohibit government from imposing, through federal law, any part of any church's religious concepts/practices/etc. upon the American citizenry: the "body of people occupying a defined territory (the United States of America) and organized under a sovereign government (the federal government: the fictitious entity created by the Constitution, which was "sovereign": independent of and equal to all other existing governments in the world, especially that of Great Britain).
BTW, it was written to shield the government from religion.
http://sonsofliberty.org/sanesociety/puritans.htmlSo if some of these laws were enacted today in Iowa, this would be what our founding fathers would approve of? If you say yes, I would disagree. You can read what you want and interpret it your way and I can read what I want and interpret it my way. We can read the same thing and come to 2 different conclusions.
http://www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall.htmlYou say you should know what they were thinking when they wrote the constitution. In Jefferson's letter he makes it quite clear what he was thinking. He put it in writing.
What you think think doesn't make you a sheep. You are entitled to your opinion. Unless, of course, religion gets into government, then your opinion would mean nothing if it didn't recognize that religion. BTW, bring it to the Oclub before we get Skuzzified.