Why do the ritors ask for Justice?

[Pat Mustard]

I guess the real question is, what does Drich mean by 'formal declaration'?

Anyone can declare they're a member of any religion or not (although, being an avowed Muslim or atheist is political suicide).  That was Ben Carson's and Ted Cruz's political strategy - cozy up to evangelicals.

What can't happen is any formal - as in governmental - declaration of allegiance to any particular god, even something as broad as the Judeo-Christian god.  This is a secular nation.  Always has been.

I'd go farther than saying the US is a secular nation (I know devout catholic nuns who have no problem professing their faith and being fully secular at the same time, and I see no contradiction there). I would state that the US is constitutionally obliged to take an agnostic position vis a vis any deity that one could possibly imagine, in that it neither supports nor denies the possibility of any deity's existence.