Religious Freedom Is Essential
It wasn’t an accident that the First Amendment to the Constitution is about religious liberty. This meant you could belong to whatever religious denomination you wished. You could believe in everything or nothing. But those freedoms are being slowly stripped away.
It seems like disputes between people of faith and government agencies are taking center stage every week, alleging that believers are violating the rights of non-believers. Or simply violating government edicts. The bare truth is, that when government comes for your freedom, they’re coming for all of your freedoms.
The Founders understood and this is why they were so insistent that religious liberty be in the Constitution. To them, freedom of liberty was tantamount to freedom of thought. Says Kelly Shackleford, president of First Liberty, “If you aren’t free to think as you wish, you can’t claim to be free. They were right. There is no example in history of a regime suppressing religious freedom and not suppressing other freedoms.” Here’s more with Shackleford on PragerU.
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