J.D. Vance
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That is the takeaway of the last 40 years.
What I'm worried about, frankly, is what the far left already did with American law enforcement.
And that is the thing that we have to prevent against.
And the answer to that question is you make sure the people who did it face penalties for using the federal power against American citizens.
If you go back to the First Amendment, it doesn't say separation of church and state.
It says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
But if you go back to the founding time, there were actually a number of states that had formally recognized churches.
So there was the Anglican Church of Virginia.
That was the official state church of Virginia.
And yes, I do think that what happened is the Supreme Court
interpreted, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, to effectively throw the church out of every public space at the federal, state, and local level, I think it was a terrible mistake and we're still paying for the consequences of it today.
But if, and I think this is your point,
if you were to undo that if you were to get back to a system actually meant by the founders where congress is not setting up an established religion but people in their local communities can kind of do whatever it is that they want to do i i think that would be a better system than what we have today but i think the most important principle that we have got to remember is you do not
You do not have to completely kick God out of the public square, which is what we've done in modern America.
It's not what the founders wanted.
It's not good for the United States of America.
And anybody who tells you it's required by the Constitution is lying to you.
You deliver the child.
There is no reason to kill the child first.
And look, if a child has some kind of fatal fetal anomaly diagnosis, then you still care for the child.