OPINION:
I read with interest Everett Piper’s recent column, “Justice Gorsuch ignores the faith behind America’s freedoms” (Web, May 10). I am in agreement and offer some additional thoughts.
Justice Gorsuch called us a “creedal” nation not defined by shared ancestry, ethnicity or religion, but rather by political principles such as liberty, equality and justice.
The irony, of course, is that religion, not politics, is the foundation of those principles. That fact was well known by the Founders of our nation. The Declaration of Independence states those self-evident truths: “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Patrick Henry, one of our Founders, said it this way: “Virtue, morality and religion, this is the armor my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. … If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen in deed.”
It seems that we, as a culture, no longer share an understanding of the past or a love of common beliefs.
DANIEL P. MCKIM
Springfield, Virginia
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