Please educate yourself about incorporation of the Bill of Rights via the 14th Amendment.
Let's see here
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. "
So what part of that expands the first amendment to cover religious displays on public property. Maybe instead of me "educating" myself about the 14th, you should educate yourself on the 10th.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. "
So what does that say? It says powers NOT GRANTED to the federal government, nor prohibited from the State are reserved to the States or the People. Since the first amendment doesn't cover religious displays on public land, it is reserved to the State and the People. Thus it is up to them to handle this themselves, and is not up to the federal government.
Uh, no. You don't even have to go to law school to punch through this ridiculous argument. The Constitution, like any law, is general language that applies to specific situations in the real world, and can't possibly mention everything.
Which is why everything else is left to the States and the People. It looks like your "punch" couldn't get through a wet paper bag.
Sure they can. But it's up to you to explain how they have, since they agree with me.
The 9th and the 10th amendment.