Religion over a lifetime matters. A religion defines a culture's moral law, or at least provides the most durable influence and definitions over generations.
The intentional legal distribution of religious power and influence to the states at the beginning of the American Republic started the decline.
Our failure to nurture Christian unity from the time of our founding as an extension of European Christendom has produced this rotten cultural, moral and religious fruit.
And now Christianity has no legal right to influence politics in Maine and America. The task is left to individual laymen and women with the courage and conviction to not back down to the Jesus Christ haters.
No support comes from the formal hierarchy of Christianity in America. And America's founding form of Christianity has split into over forty thousand denominations.
I'm thankful for this ideological defense of the moral law. It's better than nothing.