[jwalsh07]

At the time, no it wasn't.

Nonsense.

This is the founding principle of our Republic and the aim should be to preserve, conserve if you prefer, just that:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

[tacticalogic]

I’ll grant there’s a reasonable arguement to be made there. I don’t find one in this case with the proposition that these decisions cannot be left to the States.

[drjimmy]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Since we're talking about the Constitution, it would probably make more sense for you to actually quote the Constitution rather than the Declaration of Independence. The two documents had two very different purposes, and the Founders were wise enough to keep religion out of the establishment of our nation's actual governing principles.