Trump to become first president to speak at anti-LGBT hate group's summit

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(10-23-2017, 10:05 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: and they invoked a creator at no point in the Constitution. It's amusing that he would mention Jefferson's neutral references to a creator. Most in that room would have joined in with Jefferson's critics in denouncing him as an atheistic for his views. 

He wants to defend the heritage of Jefferson's "Nature's God", a god of theism and reason. By all means, defend the man who called on respecting Jesus as moral figure, praising his devotion to others and not the corrupted forms of Christianity, as he called them. I'm not sure his view of Christianity translate very well to the hatred spewed by that group. 

Jefferson did not want to include "God" in the Declaration. It was absent from the first drafts. Other drafters asked that he put it in. 

I should add that Jefferson refers to "nature's God," which is typical of deists who thought in terms of the great clock maker rather than the concerned old man with the beard who personally monitors everyone's life and thoughts.