Paul,
Your son Matthew is an intelligent, brave person and should be commended by all for his desire to uphold one of the prime tenets of the Constitution that our founding fathers so wisely created.
Bravo to Matthew and to yourself for raising a child capable of such critical thought.
"It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803