Vice President JD Vance and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts have recently asserted America was founded as a Christian nation. Gorsuch disagrees.
“I just don’t see it that way,” says Gorsuch. “We have a First Amendment for crying out loud. No established religion.”
Here’s the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
These five items are often referred to as “The Five Freedom’s”. They are sort of unique since no other founding document lists all five. Even though some of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence and/or The Federal Constitution were Christian, others were not. But regardless of their personal religion or perhaps in spite of it they signed up establishing America as a place for religious freedom which of course means the freedom to be not only not religious, to actually preach against it. Alfred North Whitehead famously wrote in his 1926 book Religion in the Making that “religion is by no means necessarily good” and that “it may be very evil.
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