Conservative Protestants have for years attempted to proclaim the United States a Christian nation in some formal sense. For example, in 1864, a group of evangelical Christians proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would clearly proclaim the United States a Christian. That effort, and others like them, obviously failed. Undaunted, however, these people have attempted a variety of maneuvers like this one that attempts to keep the “Christian America” agenda on the burner. In 2008, for example, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Va.) introduced into the House a resolution calling for Americans to honor the nation’s “religious history” during a proposed American Religious History Week. All these attempts are meaningless in any legal sense because they clearlyl contravene the First Amendment to the Constitution, but symbolically they can reinforce the “Christian America” ambitions of people who can only conceive of this country in Christian terms. For a brief review of some of these efforts, see my book, Christian America and the Kingdom of God (Illinois, 2009), pp. 7-13.