"perhaps you need a refresher on U.S. history and our founding fathers."

"Why is it so hard for you to understand that they were deists? "

Thomas Jefferson was a deist but he is the only one I am aware of and it is documented in his letters. As a refresher on your history, he basically washed his hands of the constitution after many of his ideas were pushed aside by political bickering. Jefferson was also the first Republican president, a true republican not like the liberal republicans of today. He would not have stood for the federal government inserting itself in states rights issues and would not objected if a sate allowed a Christmas celebration on its capitol grounds.