Originally Posted by Brother Oz

Some of the states had state religions I believe. And as you say, God appears a lot on your early documents, it's even (disgustingly) on your money.But I think that's irrelavant. America is a federal, democratic state. That means every state should decide what it wants in terms of religion, democratically. Federal things should be decided democratically by the whole populatin. Why does it matter what Americans wanted over 200 years ago? What matters is what Americans want now.