I give two shits as to who or what "the framers" were. I recognize that it's really important to some people, but they're the same people who talk about "the framers" the same way they talk about "the apostles". The Constitution was written as a living document. They plastered ten addenda on that thing within two years of ratifying it - so it's not like they expected it to be writ in stone. Even they knew that they couldn't write something that would handle everything in the future so they built in a system by which it could be adapted. And here we are, 220 years later, still using what a bunch of dead white guys "intended" to solve arguments, rather than what they wrote. Hell, even if they were dyed-in-the-wool Protestants they wouldn't recognize their denominations today so who cares what flavor of god they did or didn't believe in?