The Constitution And Religious Liberty

"Most of the founders of the United States were religious people. They and their predecessors fled religious persecution to come to America. The founders believed that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were endowed to humans by a Creator. But they didn't believe, or write into the Constitution, that the Quaker, Jesuit, Catholic, Lutheran or Jewish Creator's laws were those that were to be used to govern humans. The foundations for the new nation were not to be rooted in religious law, but in the moral foundations of liberty and the rights to own property and make voluntary contracts."

Bill Reeside, Jr.
Charlotte Observer Community Columnist