Telegram - Serving Metropolitan Detroit Since 1944

Watch any news channel for any length of time these days and you are bound to see some politician or other noted personality claiming that America must get back to being a "Christian nation."It is an unsound argument to say that America was founded as a Christian nation, when in fact, the original 13 colonies were established by those who were seeking relief from the restraints of the British Empire, whose king presided over an imperial church. According to Erwin Chermerinsky writing for the University of California, Berkley School of Law, the founders of this nation knew full well the con...