Is America's Government Secular?
Was America founded to be a secular nation? In other words, does religion have no role in American politics or public policy-making? The answer is more complex than you might think. Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, explains.
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It has become a dogma of progressive ideology that America is a “secular” nation. What do people mean by secular?
Their argument goes this way: “Since the Constitution establishes a strict separation of church and state, religion has no place in how the country is to be governed. Religion is a purely ‘private’ matter and therefore must be kept out of politics or public policy-making.”
There is a problem with this claim, however:
It’s false.
What the Constitution actually does when it comes to religion is, first, ban religious tests of any sort for public office—that’s in Article 6—and, second, forbid the enactment of any “law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”— those are the words of the First Amendment.
The plain meaning of those words is that Congress was forbidden from one, establishing a national church (on the model of the Church of England); and
