This they did not want on a national basis. But they were more than happy to allow it at the state level. Several states (notably Virginia) had preferential treatment of certain sects written into law. The notion that church and state are anathema is a more recent innovation.

What I like most about this decision is that it puts the burden on the lowest-level governmental institution to make rules that apply equally to all comers. Thus, if some Christian sect is allowed in, Zoroastrians can demand an equal opportunity.

I expect the long-term end result will be so much wrangling over the microphone (in court, in news papers, in pulpits) that the governmental body in question will call a pox on all houses and advance to where they should be -- government absent all religious observance.