John Adams, our second U.S. President, observed the following: “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

A few decades later the House Judiciary Committee Report, on March 27, 1854, after a one year study brought about by a suit to force the separation of church and state, said the following: "Had the people, during the Revolution, had any suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle...At the time of the adoption of the constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, not any one sect...in this age there can be no substitute for Christianity...That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants...the great vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ."

There can be no doubt that the founding and the principles both legal and moral which constitute this republic are Christian. Not religious. Christian.