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Right-Wing Influencers Don't Understand What Makes America Great
The Dissident Right is furious with Neil Gorsuch for saying America is a creedal nation. That just goes to show how out of touch its obsessions are.
Stephanie Slade | 5.9.2026 12:45 PM
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Justice Gorsuch speaks to Nick Gillespie (Reason)
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The Dissident Right is furious after Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch told Reason and several other outlets that America is a "creedal nation."
"The Declaration of Independence had three great ideas in it," Gorsuch said in a recent interview with Nick Gillespie. "That all of us are equal; that each of us has inalienable rights given to us by God, not government; and that we have the right to rule ourselves. Our nation is not founded on a religion. It's not based on a common culture, even, or heritage. It's based on those ideas. We're a creedal nation."
"Our nation is not founded on a religion. It's not based on a common culture, even, or heritage. … We're a creedal nation," Justice Neil Gorsuch tells @nickgillespie on The Reason Interview podcast. pic.twitter.com/wfdkSbrVUX
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