All laws rested on the moral vision.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

Some abortion proponents claim that by overturning Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court has elevated evangelical and Catholic morality,

and violated the Establishment Clause found in the First Amendment.

The establishment clause, however, was never meant to exclude citizens from voting their consciences or seeking their vision of the common good.

It was never intended to keep morality out of our lawmaking. In fact, every law reflects some

moral vision, whether or not that vision is labeled secular or religious. Are our laws against murder

and theft somehow unconstitutional because they echo the morality of the Bible? Think of all

the other laws that violate the

establishment clause if these critics are right. The abolition of slavery, criminal justice

reform, workers' rights, even the bankruptcy code is rooted in a uniquely biblical understanding

about the rights of debtors, economic justice, and redemption. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the

rights to life and liberty are endowed by our creator.

So should we set aside the entire American project because the Declaration of Independence

violates the Establishment Clause?

No, of course, because without it, there wouldn't be an establishment clause.

I'm John Stone Street.