The Christian right was present and active from 1776 to 1789 (and before and after), and should be active today. Most American in the Colonies/States in those years were, in fact, Christian right. . . invloved in politics. The people who founded this nation and the people who were the strongest movers for the Bill of Rights were Christian right, and people who were deeply sympathetic with them.
The Christian right is in this war, and I’m a member of that segment. I’m a Christian of like biblicist convictions to the Virginia Baptists who had the ear of Jefferson and Madison in pushing for the Bill of Rights. The leader of those Virginians was a fellow named John Leland. It is documented. It is part of our American history and heritage.
To understand how it was in early America, one need look no further than the first American President:
I never witnessed his private devotions. I never inquired about them. I should have thought it the greatest heresy to doubt his firm belief in Christianity. His life, his writings, prove that he was a Christian. He was not one of those who act or pray, “that they may be seen of men” [Matthew 6:5]. He communed with his God in secret [Matthew 6:6].
Nelly Custis-Lewis, 1833, Granddaughter of Martha Washington
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