Her distorted historical view of the intentions of the Founding Fathers contradicts just about everything most said and wrote at the constitutional convention and otherwise. There was a small minority of very fundamentalist Christians who had an established church model in mind but most had observed the disasters in England and the rest of Europe brought by religion in government, and also had the problematic history of early American colonies with religion and politics. Also, at the time there were already over a dozen different substantial religions in the colonies as well as a number of non-religious and dissenter colonists. Even though there was no established church or any of the aspects of religion in government as Ms. Harris prefers written in the original constitution, the American people wanted to be so sure of that separation that they required the First Amendment in order to obtain ratification. On the other hand Ms. Harris had one strong aspect to her argument. She knew what God wanted, while her opponents and most Americans did not have that insight.