Our founding fathers put forth the Establishment clause in the First Amendment  prohibiting  the establishment of a State religion in the USA because all of them were aware of the Thirty Years War.  In 1647, that very bloody war ended with the Peace of Westphalia.  During the Thirty Years War, some provinces of Germany lost more than 90% of their population.  Good Catholics and good Protestants burnt opposing families alive, sliced infants in half with swords, destroyed the crops and fodder and field animals and housing and roads and trees of the opposition --all to prove out what good Christians they were.  Both Catholics and Protestants also slaughtered more than a fifth of the Jews in Europe at the time, all in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

If we Americans are to have freedom of religion, we also need freedom FROM religion.   Folks proposed for the Supreme Court oppose abortions based upon how they read the Bible, oppose gay marriage, and justify state sanctioned executions.  The Bible says we should feed the hungry, house the homeless, and clothe the naked.  But all of Trump’s proposed judges oppose paying taxes to the government at all levels to help the least among us.  They say everyone should be free to give to charity to help those whose lot is in a bad way, but NO ONE should have to pay taxes in order to do so.

NO ONE should be on the Court who may may pick and choose from the Bible to justify what is the Law.   Everyone on our Supreme Court MUST keep God and the Bible OUT of ALL their decisions.   Let Judge Amy Barrett, a leading candidate, and her kind, decide the law guided by stare decisis and Kant's categorical imperative  — NOT GOD & THE BIBLE.    Let Rightwing Republican ideology go back to the lunatic fringe where it was from the 1940’s to the 1970’s;  Democrats must oppose Rightwing Republican ideology.  The bedrock of our Supreme Court must be the Constitution, NOT Republican ideology.