And even if Adams didn’t say that, it should be pretty obvious.
To yank the Constitution out of context is to commit a kind of duplicity. If it purposely allowed room for further refinement under a Christian tradition (as in hammering out exactly what should be meant by a prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment”) that’s one thing. To hold it to uphold as a “right” utterly foreign ideas such as the free and open killing of unborn children, that’s quite another.
But Moore would be wrong if he believed that main force can do a single thing about lapsed faith. It can’t, and the effort even looks silly. A Ten Commandments monument is at best preaching only to choirs. The Moores of the world should be urging evangelists to do their thing.
Moore is being broadsided by the corruptoids but as much as they fear him I doubt anyone can do much cleaning up even if elected