President Jefferson was a Deist In response to Joel Kersting’s letter of May 1, Craig Cina makes a number of invalid criticisms (June 2). First, Cina is correct that the phrase “all men are created equal, etc. is found in the Declaration of Independence and not the Constitution. But Cina is incorrect when he asserts that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration, got that notion from the Bible. Jefferson was a Deist; that is ...
June 19, 2013 - Grand Rapids Herald-Review
Mitt Romney in CBS News We have presidents who were Quakers. We have Unitarians - of course a Catholic president. We have a deist in President Jefferson,Romney said.