Dutch woman convicted of having sex outside marriage after rape

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I won't argue with you on that as I don't think Deism is religious but I included it as there were founders who were classified as Deists to show the diversity in the beliefs of the founders (not all were religious zealots even though many were pastors).  Regardless, you have a diverse groups of religious believers who firmly believed the governing body of the nation should hold no sway on what people choose to believe.

By todays standards many of them would be atheists, I gather, based on there own quotes. They just didn't have anything to compare religious doctrines against, as we have today. So they were deists.