Actually Clayton, homosexuality is the furthest thing from my mind when I study the FFs & religion.
Since it seems to be a rather important part of how you identify yourself, I rather doubt that it wouldn’t influence what you read, and what weight you put on what you find. Hence, you emphasize the more heterodox Framers who are definitely a minority (albeit, an unusually important minority) of the Framers. I emphasize what appears to have been the majority perspective of leaders–as demonstrated by the state constitutions adopted during the period, which take rather strident stands for what today would be called fundamentalist Christianity, but back then was simply orthodox Protestantism. For example, the 1776 Delaware Constitutional Convention’s requirement that delegates swear an oath, “And I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine Inspiration.”
Both points of view were present–both what used to be liberal Christian theology and what is now fundamentalism–but as you acknowledge, even those of very liberal theological convictions identified themselves as Christians, and recognized that Christianity was at the core of our form of government.
