Although not as significant as the abolition of prayer in public schools, which still infuriated religious conservatives, or the court’s 1973 decision declaring a woman’s right to abortion, the decision on gay marriage set off powerful protests by an increasingly vocal and antiliberal “Christian nationalist” movement. “Christian nationalism” was nothing new in the United States, of course. Despite the founders’ clear views on the separation of church and state, many Americans had always believed that America was part of God’s plan and that the founders themselves meant to establish a Christian
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