If This Doesn't Send A Chill Down Your Spine, Nothing Will [View all]

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Mike Pence claims the First Amendment didn't establish a right to freedom from religion.

By Susie Madrak — October 27, 2022

I think I was 12 when I learned that Christianity wasn't actually the foundation of our country the nuns described. As a young Philadelphian, I toured just about every local historical site, where I learned that Founders like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson probably didn't even consider themselves orthodox Christians -- instead, they were likely Deists. (Something that today would fall into the category of "spiritual but not religious.

But there's one thing we know for sure. The people who wrote and signed our founding documents were deeply suspicious of state religion, having witnessed the damage it did in England and in the American colonies. That's why they wrote barriers against religious political influence into the Constitution.

And that's why this little discussion with Larry Kudlow and Mike Pence horrified me. From Kudlow's show:

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/10/if-doesnt-send-chill-down-your-spine

Hey Pence and Kudlow, did you two by some strange chance go into "any" history class while in high school, did you read the two men that wrote about the religion in the Constitution .....one was by a man named Thomas Jefferson, the other one was James Madison....so where you two fucking pin heads in any class concerning the Constitution or did you go to the federalist society meeting......


James Madison:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1220/james-madison

Thomas Jefferson:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/886/wall-of-separation#:~:text=Jefferson%20explained%20his%20understanding%20of,wall%20between%20church%20and%20State