Well-meaning people get confused about the meaning of the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom.
It does not mean we should must immigrants or refugees with no thought to their religion. We are a Christian country, arguably the last refuge of Christians in a hostile world. It is entirely proper that we favor Christian refugees who are experiencing deadly repression, and at the same time, deny admission to those practicing a religion that is antithetical to our traditions. It is called "common sense", something noticeably lacking among liberals.
By analogy, the Constitution prohibits any religious test for public office. Does that mean that voters cannot consider a candidate's religion and make intelligent choices based on it? Obviously not. Liberals had no trouble mocking Sara Palin's religion and deeming her unfit for office because of it. Somehow, we are supposed to be ashamed of doing the same thing regarding muslims.
President John Adams and a unanimous Senate endorsed the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 stated: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." The Treaty was signed by President John Adams and ratified by a unanimous United States Senate.
from: http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=125
"The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli was one of several negotiated with during the "Barbary Powers War," a war against Muslim terrorists that began toward the end of the Revolutionary War and continued through the Presidencies of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. 1 During America’s original “War on Terror,” five Muslim countries (Tunis, Morocco, Algiers, Tripoli, and Turkey) were making indiscriminate terrorist attacks against what they claimed to be five “Christian” nations (England, France, Spain, Denmark, and the United States). The conflict so escalated that in 1801, Tripoli formally declared war against the United States, 2 thus constituting America’s first official war as an established independent nation."
There has never been any question that the United States is a nation where the dominate religion may be described as Christian, and in that sense certainly it is correct to say, "The United States is a Christian Nation." But it is not, I prayThe Supreme Court saw it differently in Church of the Holy Trinity vs The United States
The case is famous for Justice Brewer's statements that America is a "Christian nation."
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. 143 U.S. 457 (1892)[3]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity_v._United_States
, a Christian theocracy.:eek: Not yet anyway!There has never been any question that the United States is a nation where the dominate religion may be described as Christian, and in that sense certainly it is correct to say, "The United States is a Christian Nation." But it is not, I pray, a Christian theocracy.:eek: Not yet anyway!