So happy our founding documents were based on “all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. “ No action of government nor debate of science should shake anyone from that core principle.
What could it mean? In fact, the concept was 18th century: John Locke said atheists need not be tolerated.
"Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all; besides also, those that by their atheism undermine and destroy all religion, can have no pretence of religion whereupon to challenge the privilege of toleration."
Ouch!