I'll clear this up to help you out. What I meant about my earlier statement is that under the constitution a gay couple has the rights to marry. The This is not the reason why America's constitution was written up. The founding fathers (many of whom were free masons and persecuted under the church themselves) wanted to bring about a new country that was not under control of any religious law & order. Hence separation of church and state. It's not about protecting the church, but protecting the people from the church authority at the time. It was all for the people to have their say and their rights recognized rather then being persecuted because of their race, creed, personal beliefs, and in the case of this thread; sexual orientation. I don't know who told you otherwise, but I'm betting they didn't study their history.
The legal separation of church and state was designed to protect
both. As I just showed in the demonstration above about the Church being able to descriminate based on their race-based beliefs, something a business would not be able to do. Though the primary purpose was to prevent the persecution of religious minorities. With things like extra taxes or an inability to hold public office for those who did not follow the state-sanctioned religion or religious denomination, iirc both were penalties the British had used at one time or another.
To be sure many of the founding fathers had interesting thoughts on religion, but author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President Thomas Jefferson takes the cake. He compiled his own version of the New Testament which removed all miracles performed by Jesus, and once had this to say about the Virgin Birth “
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
Merry Christmas btw! Lol