Geoffrey Stone writes:
Whether you fancy yourself an originalist or an interpretivist, a champion of a living Constitution or a dead hand, when you puzzle over the meaning of the Establishment Clause, the Free Exercise Clause, the Ninth Amendment, the Due Process Clause, or the Free Speech Clause, when you consider whether the Constitution allows the government to have faith-based initiatives, deny homosexuals the right to marry, prohibit obscenity, forbid abortions, the use of contraceptives, or stem-cell research, teach creationism, dip the flag to Jesus, or ban the word “fuck” in public, it helps to know the truth about the Framers, about what they believed, and about what they aspired to when they created this nation.
See Geoffrey Stone, The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?
