The approach of America’s 250th anniversary of independence has sparked a predictable response from the left about whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Last weekend’s prayer and rededication event on the National Mall drew the ire of the New York Times which reported, “The prayer event showed that the separation of church and state was ‘under extreme attack,’” according to Rachel Laser, who is the president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

The Times further quoted Laser saying, “If Trump really wanted to celebrate what is unique and foundational about America, he’d be celebrating our promise of church-state separation and religious freedom for all.” It may be that Laser is ignorant of the circumstances surrounding the sentence fragment from Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in which he wrote of “separation between church and state" as a means of protecting the Connecticut Baptists from government harassment. 

It’s difficult to take Laser and her like-minded comrades seriously. Were they truly committed to separating the government from the church, they might consider recalling every scrap of currency because it reads “In God We Trust.” So do our coins. They might then advocate for firing the chaplains in the House and Senate. After that,........

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