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Letters from an American – August 9, 2025 -Heather Cox Richardson

August 9, 2025

By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 09, 2025

Last Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a video in which Christian nationalist pastors express their opposition to the idea of women voting. “I would like to see this nation being a Christian nation, and I would like this world to be a Christian world,” said Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. In his repost of the video, Hegseth wrote “All of Christ for All of Life.”

But the government of the United States of America is not, and never has been, based in Christianity. In his 1785 “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments,” framer of the Constitution James Madison explained that what was at stake in the separation of church and state was not just religion, but also representative government itself. The establishment of one religion over others attacked a fundamental, unalienable human right—that of conscience. If lawmakers could destroy the right of freedom of conscience, they could destroy all other unalienable rights. Those in charge of government could throw representative government out the window and make themselves tyrants.

The United States of America is based not on religion but on the law. The country’s founding documents are the Declaration of Independence, which established the principle that all people are created equal, and the U.S. Constitution, which has gradually expanded since it was first written, increasingly recognizing the equal rights of all Americans.

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ICYMI: The Christian Impact Network wants their religion to become part of municipal government and they're rallying support ahead of this fall's election.

With untrue statements about separation of church and state, and a dose of Islamophobia, this group has been supported by Conservative politicians at the federal and provincial level.

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TownAndCountryToday.com · Municipal Christian Rally aims to inspire political engagement ahead of electionsSpeakers at Westlock event encourage Christian involvement in politics ahead of municipal elections
Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy

It’s called private or home schooling.

Keep your kids away from the rest of society instead of forcing your “religion” on others.

Suing for legal rights to act as knowing Typhoid Mary - killing fellow citizens as freedom to “religion” - seems about right for a nation who’s constitutional rights to well-regulated muskets used in militia provides for our apex sacrament of bullets for trespassers; instead of the forgiveness stated in the Bible.

#SeperationOfChurchAndState
#FreedomFromReligion
#AmericanDeathWish
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seattletimes.com - JOHN RABY · A West Virginia parent sues seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinationsBy seattletimes.com - JOHN RABY
Charlie McHenry

#SeparationOfChurchAndState preserved for the moment as Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms. Public schools are just that, public. Student bodies include kids that are Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, agnostic and atheist. The US Constitution mandates no state religion, as many of the authors and founders of the country fled religious persecution. They understood the dangers of state-mandated religion - so they protected all of us against it and in the process guaranteed the freedom to practice any religion. Christians are overreaching, attempting to circumvent the #constitution and the intentions of our founders. #Religion #Christianity #FreedomFromReligion #ReligiousFreedom #legl #TenCommandments #PublicEducation #PublicSchools #Education

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A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway at the Georgia Capitol on June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
AP News · Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten CommandmentsA panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional. The court’s order on Friday comes amid an ongoing legal battle spurred by a lawsuit filed last year by parents of Louisiana school children from various religious backgrounds, who say the law violates First Amendment language guaranteeing religious liberty and forbidding government establishment of religion. Backers of the law argue that posting the Ten Commandments does not violate the Constitution because the commandments are historical and part of the foundation of U.S. law.
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