Loki wrote:
Actually, the First Amendment restricts government from meddling in religion. If you read it, it places no such restrictions on religion in government.
You have to realize that at the time the First Amendment was ratified, the US was overwhelmingly Christian. The founders could not have possibly envisioned a nation like today, where the majority of our immigrants come from Mexico and Central America, rather than Europe, as was the case until LBJ and Ted Kennedy put together the immigration laws of the mid 1960s.
52 of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 identified as either Catholic or Protestant. Those who claim the majority were Deists are mistaken. Many were of a bent called "Anti-Clerical Christian," who were Christians who rejected the need for Clergy and Churches. In the 18th Century, organized Christianity, especially the French and Spanish Catholic Church, and to a lesser degree, the Church of England, were more political than religious institutions, exerting an incredible amount of influence on secular governments. The Anti-Clerical Christians rejected this notion in favor of keeping religious organizations, if not religion, out of government, having seen the results of a powerful church and clergy.
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