Washington would shudder at your use of his name.
When trying to arrange for workmen in 1784 at Mount Vernon, Washington made clear that he would accept "Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists." Washington wrote Lafayette in 1787, "Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."
VirginiaPlaces.org
Also referenced in the Mount Vernon website.
Madison would take issue with your assessment of his position.
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no mans right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance. True it is, that no other rule exists, by which any question may divide a Society, can be ultimately determined, but the will of the majority; but it is also true that the majority may trespass on the rights of the minority.
--James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785
An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.
--James Madison to Edward Livingston, 1822
Snopes report on references to Judeo-Christian tradition.
I could go on, but I don't think it will do much good.
It would be in the same context that it was historically... Such as Washington's Thanksgiving Day proclamation, the court room from 1800 that I referenced in an earlier post, and so forth.
Liberals have been hell bent on removing all vestiges of God, the Bible and Christianity from public life and now apparently evo's are trying to remove/separate God and Christianity from conservatism (which is impossible given history).
Yes...The Constitution protects against a federal establishment of a denomination. And yes...This was also the mindset of the founders.
But...Obviously, given history, the lawful protection against federal denominationalism, did not prevent/cease the adherence to, and communication of, God, the Bible and Christian principles...Not even in public schools (gasp! the Bible was formerly used in public schools).
In fact, a great case can be made, via historical primary source documentation, that denominationless Christianity has been imposed.
And given our country's great Christian heritage, it is quite laughable to have evo's claiming that adherence to God The Creator is destoying conservatism.