The result of this chain of logic is that the government should look to the church for guidance on issues of good citizenship. Read no further than the first paragraphs of the Greenville anti-gay resolution and you will see this circuitous logic in action. Surely, public safety falls into the domain of government. In the eyes of the extreme right, it is in no violation of any constitutional prohibition when it turns county council into its bully pulpit. This line dance from pulpit to council is not entirely necessary, since the radical right believes the United States is founded on its concept of God.
Fundamentalists revise American history to exclude any deistic influences.
To them, there has been a continuous and solid line of like believers since the Mayflower. Their understanding of God was the constitutional framers' understanding of God. The bottom line for the extreme right is that the framers of the Constitution were fundamentalists. Therefore, when the Constitution was created, it was written with their definition of God and state. The 20th century fundamentalist is, therefore, called to return us to the moral days of our founding fathers, when homosexuals and witches were burned.