Our founding fathers were not Christians.

[longship]

51. Now you are making a strictly rhetorical argument

And I do not disassociate myself from such arguments. My education is in science, specifically physics, where definitions are fairly precisely defined.

However, culture tends to use definitions more loosely. I will defer to the linguists to argue what the definition of "fundementalist". But I believe that historically there is some help in that area; it was a religious movement that began in the latter part of the 19th century which took Biblical inerrancy as one of its tenants.

I am no expert on this, but that is my reading of it.

I may not be correct in my vernacular, so allow me to put it bluntly. All religion is toxic when mixed with any culturally moral question. It has, throughout history, to have shown itself incapable to do the job. The only solution to the problem is to cast aside religion as a form of politics, government, and science, and to form a government free of religion while acknowledgingly endorsing that some people have religious beliefs.

Nota bene, that is no endorsement of any religious faction having the right to use legislative fiat to impose their beliefs on the electorate. That means that the war on women disappears. You don't believe in abortion? Fine! Don't get one! You don't believe in contraception? Fine, join the quiver full movement.

Just leave other people alone. Your specific religious beliefs have no authority in this country, under this Constitution.