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Because there was a diversity among the founders and if they intended the US to be a de facto Christian nation they would have said so, would they not?

They did not want the government to establish a national religion that is the extent of religion and government in the constitution. No where in the platform does it say that the RPT wants to have government establish a national church that is Christian in nature. All they are saying that when founded the country were founded on Christian principles (which is true) and that shutting religion from government is wrong (which it is) and they want it to be known that "The party affirms freedon of religion, and rejects effots of courts and secular activists who seek to remove and deny such a rich heritage from our public lives." People are reading way too much into this.

"All they are saying that when founded the country were founded on Christian principles"

Are they Christian principles or are they Hebrew principles? The 10 commandments arise out of the Hebrew Bible and if I'm not mistaken, many of our legal laws are promulgated based on the tenants expressed therein?