Conservative Nonsense

Many conservatives continue to contend that America is a Christian nation, that the founding fathers were Christian, and of course everything the founding fathers ever thought, touched, or pissed on is a golden nugget of awesome, ne'er to be altered or questioned. Recently, the Republicans' favorite troll, Sarah Palin, gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.

I have only this to offer as rebuttal, from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was ratified in 1797 and then signed by founding father and POTUS, John Adams.

Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

And that's really all I have to say about this rubbish.