The Declaration of Independence is the original document of the United States of America and specifically gives us endowment by our Creator, among other things. Nowhere does it specify that that creator is Allah, Jesus Christ, Yahweh, or any other deity with which we tend to tie with divinity (else the founding fathers likely would have specified—nothing like clarity in your nation’s birth certificate). Creator could mean the universe itself. None of these purported creators are incorrect, but they are also not scientifically testable, therefore they are not absolute truths either. Because absolute truth is what people tend to seek, they cling to a perfect god or a divine book, and that’s fine. It’s their right as Americans. However, when religion seeps into politics, therein lays the problem. Politics is loosely defined as “the activities associated with the governance of an area or country” or as “the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing government policy”, which ties neither God nor religion to the world of politics, even including the word science in the definition, a word that tends to be a threat to the deeply religious. Because of its tendency toward biasness, prejudice, and insensitivity, the world of politics need not affiliate with the cancer of society and decency that is organized religion. Names like Jerry Falwell, Jesse Jackson, Mike Huckabee, and Pat Robertson do not often come up in the same sentence, but they all share two things in common. They were influential to politics, and they are all deeply religious. It is no surprise then that they all hold true to the ideals presented within their churches and their bibles and use those ideals to further political agendas to create new policy or affect existing policy. Politics should be spoken for by politicians. That is not to say that, as Americans, we should not wish to