There's a tendency by many who support the likes of Judge Roy Moore to cite our nation's supposed foundation on Christian laws.
People who think that are probably confusing the Pilgrims, who are certainly a good example of religious over-zealotry, with the men who fought for our independence, who formed the government and wrote the Constitution.
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