Read "Other Faiths" as being another item in a list.
We've had fundies run the country before and they didn't do as bad a job as the secularists.
However, Dr. Dobson should keep his nose out of the Christian Church Movement type of theology to which Thompson adheres (reaching back to Campbell, Stone, and the Primitive Baptists). He's well within OUR tradition if not his own ~ which is another way of saying Dr. Dobson is theologically in error from at least one other major point of view.
You are a historical revisionist.
What you see below is only an extract of an eight-page length list posted not too long ago citing presidents all the way to FDR. Since the 1960s, especially, the humanists have tried to re-write the history of the late 18th century to exclude the undeniable influence of biblicist (fundamentalist, if you will) Christianity on the founding and life of our nation and its leaders.
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible” —George Washington
“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society...” —John Quincy Adams
“That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests” —Andrew Jackson
“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong” —Abraham Lincoln