1.)The existence of marriage and abortion both predate the American colonies.
2.) The US was not created as a christian country and no version of the Bible is the foundation of our law.
3. The very existence of the right of freedom means that we can act as we wish to do until the state can prove a compelling interest to prevent us from doing do.
4.) The fact that the 4th amendment exists means that we have the inherent right of privacy because the 4th says that the government must obtain a warrant signed by an impartial judge to violet out privacy and enter our homes and search our belo9mngings.
5.) We all have equal religious rights to believe or not to believe and to act as we choose with regard to religious belief or the lack there of. Those religious rights belong to all religions equally as well as infidels of all sorts, as per some guy named Tommy Jefferson. You cannot force others to live by your mythology.
Take your theocratic dreams and kindly put it when it belongs, on the trash heap of human mistakes.
I always find it curious when people deny any connection to the founding of the United States, the founding fathers and the Constitution to organized Christian religion and its influence.
The following excerpts are from a work by Mark David Hall, Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science at George Fox University. A link to the complete work is included at the end.
Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical interest, has important implications for how we conceive of the role of religion in the American republic. Mark David Hall begins by considering two popular answers to the query—“Of course not!” and “Absolutely!”—both of which distort the Founders’ views. After showing that Christian ideas were one of the important intellectual influences on the Founders, he discusses three major areas of agreement with respect to religious liberty and church–state relations at the time of the Founding: Religious liberty is a right and must be protected; the national government should not create an established church, and states should have them only if they encourage and assist Christianity; and religion belongs in the public square. In short, while America did not have a Christian Founding in the sense of creating a theocracy, its Founding was deeply shaped by Christian moral truths. More important, it created a regime that was hospitable to Christians, but also to practitioners of other religions.
I believe that this is the most reasonable way to approach the question “Did America have a Christian Founding?” In doing so, it is important to note that nominal Christians might be influenced by Christian ideas, just as it is possible for an orthodox Christian to be influenced by non-Christian ideas. I believe that an excellent case can be made that Christianity had a profound influence on the Founders.[6]
If one is to understand the story of the United States of America, it is important to have a proper appreciation for its Christian colonial roots. By almost any measure, colonists of European descent who settled in the New World were serious Christians whose constitutions, laws, and practices reflected the influence of Christianity. Although some authors refer to this “planting” as a “founding,” such a designation is rare among scholars. Instead, most scholars consider America to have been founded in the late 18th century around one of, or some combination of, two major events: the War for Independence and the creation of America’s constitutional order.
Did America Have a Christian Founding? | The Heritage Foundation
