There are many factors that make a country’s culture what it is. Two of the most important are the use of the State’s police power to protect public morality and the moral influence of religion. The United States Supreme Court, since at least the Warren Court, has interpreted the First Amendment’s speech and Establishment of Religion clauses in ways that are not only seriously incorrect but that played, and continue to play, a major negative role in the decline of American culture. Other factors are involved, but the courts have severely damaged the ability of State and Church to retard the advance of those other factors or perhaps reverse them.