Senator Josh Hawley drew criticism from historians and teachers of US government over the July 4 holiday after he posted a tweet incorrectly ascribed to Patrick Henry which asserted that America was founded as a specifically Christian nation.
Aside from the fact that the Constitution explicitly lays out that America will never have an official state religion, Mr Hawley’s message falsely attributed a quote from a biography of Henry, one of America’s Founding Fathers, to the man himself.
