This Country was NOT founded on
Christian principles. Ben Franklin, although the Christians have
tried to hijack him and make him one of them, disliked Christianity.
You see, he was old enough to remember Cotton Mather. In fact, Franklin
argued with Mather publicly and that was one of the main reasons he
relocated to Philadelphia. Cotton Mather, BTW, was the force behind
the Salem Witch Trials. That was the view of Christianity that
Franklin, and most (if not all) of the rest of the Founding Fathers
had. They were 'Deists' at best. Remember they were living and
working in a town and Colony founded by Wm. Pitt. You may remember
that he was the man who was granted land to establish a Colony that
wasn't under the Church's thumb?
The Founding Fathers all saw the same sort of Fundamentalism that you people espouse today as an unholy trap. It had created and sustained the Dark Ages, the Inquisition, the
rejection and murder of the Huguenots and lately, (to them), the
Witch Hunts throughout England, Europe and America. They wanted a Gov't that was free of
the sort of Fundamentalist, Christian only, Festering Pustule of
misguided 'Faith' that has reared it's ugly, prejudiced head again in
the US of late.
"In God We Trust" was NOT
their motto and should NEVER have been adopted. The phrase,
"Under God," should NEVER have been added to our pledge.
They espoused freedom FROM religion as much as freedom OF
religion. They correctly thought that Church should NEVER be
allowed to have a part in State. Look at the Church of England's
response to Wm. Pitt, Sr. To how it handled the 'Quakers.' Look at
what it did to the Huguenot leaders, whom they had rescued from
France, when it realized that they weren't going to espouse the
Church of England as a National Religion any more than they had
Catholicism, in France. England, for a Century before the Colonies
were founded and for almost 2 full Centuries after, was rife with
Civil Wars, persecutions, first of Catholics, then of Protestants,
back to Catholics and finally persecution or even execution for
anyone who wasn't a card-carrying member of the Church/State. And it
was NO BETTER in the Colonies at the time. These were the
'Christian' principles that our Founding Fathers were faced with.
These are the 'Christian' principles
you Fundamentalists and your sort, would have us bound to, today.
Now, all of that is NOT to say
that you and your Faith have no place, no Right, in this Country. You
do! I, along with millions of other people, swore an Oath to defend
that Right, among others. But so do all other Peoples have the
same Rights. The Church, any church, has NO RIGHT
or RESPONSIBILITY to control Marriage, it is a CIVIL
Institution (contract), anymore than they have a RIGHT to
tell women that they may NOT get an abortion. People in this
Country have, and rightly should ALWAYS HAVE, the Freedom to
choose, to do with their relationships and their own bodies as
THEY SEE FIT, without Witch Hunts, without interference from
anyone else, and especially any Church, Religion or Faith!
Grow up, Fundamentalists, and go learn
something!
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