Does it really matter, though?
Can't I arrive at an inherent right to life, liberty, and pursuit of "happiness" without a creator, simply based on natural law? These are universal ideas, and really do not require religion to understand and accept.
Isn't it interesting that the same guys (a subset, anyway) who wrote the word "Creator" in the Declaration specifically left it out of the Constitution? And even went on further to clearly define that a religious test is not required to hold office?
Yes, of course, a person's religious beliefs are going to affect the way the see the world. My point is that a person's specific religious beliefs and practices should not be applied to public policy in such a way as to violate the either clause of the first amendment.
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Posted: 03/24/2016 at 1:50PM