The answer is A) The debate is over whether the issue should be under federal or state control
We elect senators and representatives for the House. They basically make up what the people who elected them wants, but some are corrupt so they don't really listen to the people. They mainly listen to the people who fund their campaigns. What we do have are the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Amendments to protect our rights such as forcing the person we elected to do what we want, because if they don't we can "fire" them and elect new ones. (petition)
Deists believe in God - they believe he is the one who created everything in the very beginning, but then left us to our own devices to decide what we wanted to do with our lives. They do believe God exists, but they think that he doesn't interfere with anything on Earth, be it science, or mechanistic workings of the universe in general.