I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.