Andrew Wilson

It's even philosophically the case.

From the non-Christian view, when you say things like, don't you appeal to the First Amendment or this right, right?

That's what I'm getting at.

Don't you appeal to this right?

This right, we need to have the adult conversation, doesn't even exist.

It's just a social construction that we made up and it was pinned on a piece of paper and we pretend that it's something we actually adhere to, but it's really not.

Violate it constantly.

I don't care.

The founders, what they wrote down was based on a massive compromise because beforehand they had the Articles of Confederation.

And the Articles of Confederation made each little kind of state, which wasn't a state even really then, their own nations.

And it didn't work out very well because they couldn't regulate trade or raise armies or things like this.

So what they did via the compromise was they had a 10th Amendment.

Now, the 10th Amendment says that all the rights that are not given to the federal government are given to the states prospectively.

And at our founding, almost every single state had a state religion, almost all of them.

Well, of course, and they were religious people.

And they continued to have them, I mean, clear up until there was an interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which was widely viewed as being unconstitutional to this day.

States were always allowed to have their own religion and put in their own religious practices, and those practices were to be adhered to if you wanted to hold office, if you wanted to swear oaths, if you wanted to do things like this.

That was part and parcel of American society and the way that we did things.

Now, that has changed as progressives have kind of demonized the whole idea that, well, that's against the First Amendment.

And it's like, well, no, it ain't.