[hanamizu]

“We urge you to lead our nation on a path that revives the Founders’ vision of religious freedom in our government...”

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Several, if not most, states had “established” churches at the time of the Constitution, so I imagine the Founders were pretty much OK with the idea of religion in public life. Perhaps because different states had different established churches, they wanted to avoid them at the Federal level.

[Knocker]

In Colonial times an ‘established’ church was one supported by a general tax on all residents, (whether or not they subscribed to different faiths) to pay wages for the established preacher and to maintain his church’s programs and properties. Thus strong opposition to ‘established’ religions took root in American soil.

Yet, some elements of a similar injustice survive in the predicament of families today who pay tuition to send their children to parochial schools, or have no children, but are still taxed to support the public school system, and it’s metastasizing cadres of greedy unionized parasites.