Foul innuendo

In anonymous whispers, Senator Barack Obama has been alleged to be a Muslim. To a paraphrase a famous sotto voce Seinfeld episode: "He's a Muslim ... not that there's anything wrong with that."

First of all, Obama is a baptized Christian. In February of 2007, I wondered aloud how long it would be before his non-Anglo-Saxon name would become an issue.

And. although not true, would it really matter if Senator Obama were not a Christian?

The 1st amendment to the US Constitution says this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

Has free expression of religion become an inconvenient and old-fashioned notion? Has our First Amendment been repealed?