A Christian nation

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/22/2010 11:37 AM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>Conservatives often criticize me for my position that there is a big
>category of misquotations by people furthering conservative
>political agendas, but the fact is that there is a vast body of big
>distortions of Founding Fathers quotations promulgated by
>conservatives arguing that the United States was intended to be an
>explicitly Christian nation.

For another Founding Father besides Jefferson, one might quote from
Washington's letter to the Jewish congregation of Newport, Rhode
Island.  Not merely "toleration" of other religions, but acceptance of them.

Joel

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