Religion and the First Amendment

If you cannot win on the issues or even express your legitimate points with clarity, go after people as heathens and G-d hating liberals destined to hell. In typical fashion the enemies of the incumbent are engaging in religious warfare, helpful to arouse the extremists but disastrous in the national. Anyhow, what is troubling is the lack of understanding about what the first amendment even says about religion. It has two separate parts...the establishment clause and the free exercise clause but Republican Presidential candidates don't seem to understand this. Government may not establish any religion as a formalized or superior aspect of our governing institutions. Therefore, the secular and accepted equality about providing contraceptive benefits to all WHO CHOOSE it, honors the intent of the establishment clause. To deny the free user his or her legal right based solely on religious principle comes dangerously close to establishing one thought process over all others. This is why the President's compromise is being so well received by all but the Bishops and the Church itself and of course Rick, Mitt and Newt perhaps not sincerely except for Rick, who hawk for primary voters. As far as the free exercise clause, this states that we are free to practice faith, not practice faith, love G-d not love G-d and there is nothing that can be imposed upon us to eliminate this freedom. It seems as if those in support of religious extremism as the be all to governance are forgetting this aspect of the first amendments' guarantees regarding choice. I suppose these men running for office just don't seem to want to understand the true meaning of our Bill of Rights. Where are you Americans for reason and truth?