AND THIS FIGHT IS ABOUT PROTECTING THE RELIGION OF ISLAM:

Our Jim Ceaser in his signature work on American exceptionalism puts forward the proposition that a large part of the singular mission of our country these days is to protect the practice of Biblical religion -- which, in this case, means Christianity and Judaism -- in the world. That means protecting the truth found in the Bible about the personal Creator and human persons being essentially "transpolitical." True religion is not essentially civil theology, and religious truth isn't essentially a matter of law. Human freedom, if you think about it, can't just be the freedom of autonomous individuals. Just as it can't just be some abstract "intellectual" or philosophic freedom. It has be a moral, relational, and intellectual freedom characteristic of each and every whole person, a freedom for religious communities as organized bodies of thought and action not subservient to the state.

The recognition of that freedom might be the main difference between our Constitution and the constitutions that flow from the French Revolution. And it was the main thing that connected our country in the war against Communism with our European allies that had, to some large extent or another, abandoned and stood against the French revolutionary idea of an omnicompetent state that depends on something like Rousseau's civil religion.

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