I totally empathize with you and rue the day when what was originally written and intended became a bludgeon against us. Meanwhile, the nation has become what it wasn't -- particularly with an invasion from Asia which has brought with it strange mindsets, beliefs, philosophies and (yes) religions which believe justice comes around only after several lifetimes. History and sociology have overtaken our religious underpinnings so that now, what was intended to prevent any particular Christian DENOMINATION from holding a preeminent place, has become the fulcrum used to pry Christianity ITSELF from its foundational position, even to the point of denying that it ever was so.
I, like you, abhor this fact of life and history -- but it is undeniable. Meanwhile, we need to be wise as serpents, harmless as doves, and take measures to write Christianity into public life subtly, if need be.
Sicko libs get off on moral relativity that obliterates the clear line between right and wrong. How else could the conniving Clintons and their acolytes have gotten away with all their crimes?
The hidden agenda of the religio-phobic ACLU, People For The American Way, Planned Parenthood American United for Separation of Church and State, etc, despite their high-faluting reasoning, is to decimate all references to morality b/c in their small, inferior, insular minds morality equates to the dreaded sectarian religious beliefs.
How very successful they have been. Everyday we see the moral relativity agenda's outcome as we experience the unimaginable crimes and the collapse of a once-thriving culture's moral underpinnings.