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snip: do you think she’d consider the US Constitution fundamentally flawed because it not only allows it, but protects that right?

In response to your question, we’ll turn to Charles Hodge, married to the great-granddaughter of Ben Franklin, received his doctorate from Rutgers and was a professor at Princeton for 50 years. In 1871, he anticipated the coming paranoid-schizophrenic Christophobic intolerance of people just like you, the ACLU, etc:

“The proposition that the United States is a Christian nation, is not so much the assertion that the great majority of the people are Christians, but that the organic life, the institutions, laws, and official action of the government, is in accordance with the principles of Christianity...In the process of time thousands have come who are not Christians. Some are Jews, some are infidels, and some are atheists,...All are welcomed; all are admitted to equal rights and privileges. All are allowed to acquire property, and to vote in every election. All are allowed to worship as they please, or not to worship at all...No man is required to profess any form of faith, or to join any religious association...More than this cannot reasonably be demanded. More, however, is demanded...The infidel demands that the government should be conducted on the principle that Christianity is false, the atheist demands that it should be conducted on the assumption that there is no God...The sufficient answer to all of this is that it cannot possibly be done.” (Back Fired, William J. Federer, p. 171)

Why can’t it be done? Because ideas have consequences, and in that this nation, described by d’Tocqueville as the ‘freest, most enlightened’ civilization in the history of the world is founded on, “the organic life, the institutions, laws, and official action of the government, is in accordance with the principles of Christianity..,” these fundamental presuppositions cannot be set-aside to please Muslims and atheists without destroying our inalienable rights and liberties.

Federer’s book is a detailed history of the Christian founding of this nation. As he shows, Jews, Unitarians, Muslims, atheists and other non-believers were allowed to come here and enjoy the liberties and rights available here. However, Christian tolerance towards these others has been used by many of them to, in the words of Federer, “throw the Christians out of the boat.’

And that is precisely your own attitude, which is compounded of both hostility and paranoia.

Read the words of Einstein and learn from them:

“Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly. Albert Einstein