Can the author please reconcile the Founder’s belief that public schools should specifically teach religion, morality, and knowledge (in that order) with his assertion that belief in God is not embedded in the fabric of what is America? Methinks he should research the beginnings of this nation more closely. Jefferson’s singular statement regarding “separation” has for decades been taken out of context of Jefferson’s own extensive statements on the subject and used to distort the original meaning of the Constitution’s establishment clause. He even advocated use of Public buildings for shared religious services… Why not include that in our Constitutional interpretation?
While it is not necessary to believe in a Supreme Being to be an American, it is a gross distortion of history to assert the Founders did not intend for God to be recognized as the source of our basic human rights.. yes even that right not to believe in Him.
Furthermore the Establishment clause only regulates the Federal Government, not those of the States and that was intentional as well. Application to the states is yet another broad (and unconstitutional) reach by the weakest and unelected branch of the government to expand it to the States. It’s high time we corrected the Judicial Branch’s overreach in the many areas where they have trammeled our country’s founding principles.
