Number 2 is very appropriate and should in fact be number 1. Read the founding fathers.
"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand." -John Adams, 1776
"We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."-John Adams, 1798
"...I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men..."-Benjamin Franklin, 1797

Just to list a few.