I am still reading Levin in Liberty and Tyranny to discover why he thinks separation of church and state is not in the Constitution, as a originalist stance. Levin argues that God made the world, gave us natural law and a transcendent moral code to live by, and many unalienable rights to boot, among the liberty to worship or not worship, to believe or not believe, as we as individuals see fit.
The Founders were godly men and they insisted that God and Faith be involved in public affairs at all levels at all time, for without God and without morals, citizens would be not virtuous or remain virtuous, and the federal experiment would thus decline and perish.
God is to be involved int he public arena, but liberty and tolerance are inseparable from natural law and unalienable rights enshrined in and growing out of the Constitution. This is where I believe Levin is headed on this vital issue.
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