In response to Stephen Franklin White’s Aug. 5 letter, “Supreme Court fails on moral issue,” remember what James Madison, the author of our Constitution, had to say about religion: “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.” And then there’s the treaty signed by John Adams that says, “The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.”
The moral issue is Franklin White’s own, not the government’s, for our land is governed by a Constitution that requires the separation of church and state.
Joseph Maurer
Vancouver
