Just Posted: Fighting Words For A Secular America

Tired of hearing the religious right claim U.S. law has religious roots? Want to argue the point, but unsure of where to start? No problem. Robin Morgan has it covered:

When Attorney General John Ashcroft repeatedly invokes religion, the Founders must be picketing in their graves. They were a mix of freethinkers, atheists, Christians, agnostics, Freemasons and Deists (professing belief in powers scientifically evinced in the natural universe). They surely were imperfect. Some were slaveholders.

Female citizens were invisible to them ‘?? though Abigail Adams warned her husband John, ‘”If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.’”

But the Founders were, after all, revolutionaries. Their passion ‘?? especially regarding secularism ‘?? glows in the documents they forged and in their personal words.

Read Robin Morgan’s full story for words from John Adams, George Washington, James Madison and more …