On 9/17/1787, the Constitution was sent to the 13 States to consider and vote yes or no. There is no statement that the States are to ratify in a deity’s name. IN’s Lt Gov, Micah Beckwith, says that it is “very clear” that we were founded “on Christian values.” [FN1] 1/10

The phrase “in the year of our Lord” is “not part of the official legal Constitution.” [FN2] The phrase has no legal significance and the “first time any one argued that it had religious significance was a preacher writing nearly 50 years after the Constitutional Convention.” [FN3] 2/10

State conventions’ records are not “very clear” about “Christian values.” In its report, Delaware copies the Constitution for its signing date & notes its date of ratification is “in the aforesaid year.” [FN4] No one claims use of “in the year of our lord” makes “very clear” this nation 3/10

is a theocracy or a Christian country. When delegate Abbott opposed ratification at the first North Carolina convention for lack of god, no one said that the attestation clause addressed his concerns. [FN5] IN’s Lt Gov describes documents from the past. [FN6] You can’t alter them. 4/10

Sandbagging on the attestation clause smacks of duplicity, a value of Christofascists. Other places: Pennsylvania “in the name and by the authority” of the people of commonwealth noted the date it ratified as “year of our Lord.” [FN7] Where are those documents? The docs 5/10

that IN’s Lt Gov says are “very clear”? Free speech and expression might soon end. Constantine used Christianity to solidify power. Others in history followed that path. Indiana saw this same shit show a century ago. A difference is D.C. Stephenson was better dressed.. 6/10

Footnotes:
FN1. IN Lt Gov Micah Beckwith: ““America was absolutely founded on Christian values. You have to be ignorant to think otherwise. The writings of our Framers and the founding documents are very clear on that.” 7/10

FN2. The official Constitution’s text ends before these extra words of attestation that were not ratified by the state conventions in 1787-88. Akhil Reed Amar, professor, Yale School of Law, “The Constitution and the Candidates///” The Daily Beast, 8/19/12. 8/10

FN3. Seidel, Andrew L., “Dating God: What Is ‘Year of Our Lord’ Doing in the U.S. Constitution?” 3 Constitutional Studies 129 (2018).
FN4. 1 Elliot’s Debates p. 319. 9/10

FN5. 4 Elliot’s Debates pp. 191-200.
FN6. “The writings of our Framers and the founding documents are very clear on that.”
FN7. 1 Elliot’s Debates p. 319-20. 10/10