The #TeaParty and other RW Religious Nutters like to refer to the US a a “Christian Nation” that needs to get back to the “beliefs of our founding fathers” and usually add a few Anti-Islam slurs in for good measure.
That’s not what George Washington said, that John Adams agreed to, and the US Senate passed in 1796.
Article 11 from the Treaty of Tripoli states clearly:
“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion – as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Mussulmen – and as the said states never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries”.
Put that in your Capirote and smoke it, baggers.
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