Let us be honest with one another. There is a new religion forming in the United States.

At the center of this religion are a mythical group of people known as the Founding Fathers. (Please note that there are apparently no founding mothers.) Practitioners of this religion insist that all new laws must be in keeping with what the Founding Fathers desired. Would they, for example, have approved of homosexuals being allowed to marry? (I suspect they would not, as such a thing was unheard of in their day.) Would they have approved of restitution being paid to persons of African descent? (They would not have, as they considered persons of African descent to be property.)

Even those persons who lean leftward in their politics are not immune to this religion. They point out the intent of the Founding Fathers when discussing such issues as the Second Amendment and gun violence. It is not enough for practitioners of this religion to acknowledge that these men helped found the United States. No, according to them, we must always consider the will of the Founding Fathers. It has become a rather specific form of ancestor worship.