Gorsuch: US ‘never supposed to be … about one race or one religion’

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said in a recent interview that the U.S. was not founded on “one race or one religion,” pushing back on arguments made by conservatives such as Vice President Vance.

“We were founded, a lot of our colonies, for our religious pluralism, right? And the opportunity to practice your own faith in your own way,” Gorsuch told PBS host Margaret Hoover in an episode of “Firing Line” published Friday.

“And we were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion, it was about those ideas,” he added, referring to America’s founding principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “And those things are perfect ideas that speak to every human heart and that unite us all.”

Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, touted his view in December that Christianity provided the prevailing ideals for the founding and continuation of the........

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