This is false. Every one of them ratified the DOI acknowledging that rights are granted by the Creator, not the state. It is the keystone of which this nation is founded upon. While this is not endorsement of a state established religion, which nobody here supports, it is an endorsement of God and the basis of the Constitution.
But it's also true that most of those didn't believe in mixing government and religion, for both philosophical and practical reasons.The Declaration represents the whys of the Revolution, not the hows of the new government. Indeed, between the time that the Declaration was adopted and the Constitution was written, we adopted and scrapped a separate founding document.This is false. Every one of them ratified the DOI acknowledging that rights are granted by the Creator, not the state. It is the keystone of which this nation is founded upon. While this is not endorsement of a state established religion, which nobody here supports, it is an endorsement of God and the basis of the Constitution.
Nowhere in the Constitution is the Declaration given any weight as a legal basis of our government. If it was, us WoD opponents might be able to use the "pursuit of happiness" clause in court.
-Eric