Today's American Minute — Religious Freedom Day: Jefferson's Virginia Statute & How Courts Twisted Meaning of First Amendment to make Government Hostile to Religious Liberty
Religious Freedom Day: Jefferson's Virginia Statute & How Courts Twisted Meaning of First Amendment to make Government Hostile to Religious Liberty- American Minute with Bill Federer
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, and ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments ... tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone."