Confirming Protection of Religious Freedom by the 1st Amendment

 

The phrase “separation of church and state”

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• Is not in the Constitution

• Is not part of any law

• Was in a letter from Pres. Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists

• Affirmed conscience rights

• Reinforced free exercise of faith

• Denied government power over religious belief and practice

• Is dangerously misunderstood

• Is mis-used to limit religious freedom

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Learn what very few Americans know!

Read the Jan.1, 1802, letter to the Danbury Baptists in which Pres. Thomas Jefferson confirmed support of the 1st Amendment, the voice of the whole American people, that conscience and the practice of faith is to be free from government interference. The first amendment’s assertion of religious freedom through the Establishment Cause and Free Exercise Clause limits the actions of the government, not of the people.      Read here: https://tinyurl.com/4cynyyyz

 

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved.” -Samuel Adams