[khnyny]

"I've been watching this program from the beginning. This is the most accurate televised discussion of the origin and meaning of the First Amendment's religious clauses that I've ever seen. Even before it's over, I recommend that all interested in this subject, tape and keep this program as a primer on this subject."

I agree. Perhaps there's a way to get the transcript. Most of the laws enacted have occurred in the last 50 years. It seems that the US has increasingly become more like the secular communists and Maoists than true to the founding father's vision of a God-based society.

[RobbyS]

Until after 1960, there was a Protestant Establishment. Thereafter, the Establishment beccame more and more secular in its views. The decline of the Episcopal Church in the United States is one sign of the transformation of the elites, but it was a process that had begun a hundred years before, after the Civil War and with the ascendency of social darwinism.