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WASHINGTON D.C., January 16, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – President Donald Trump proclaimed January 16, 2018 “Religious Freedom Day.” LifeSiteNews is pleased to provide Trump’s entire declaration.
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DAY, 2018
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Faith is embedded in the history, spirit, and soul of our Nation. On Religious Freedom Day, we celebrate the many faiths that make up our country, and we commemorate the 232nd anniversary of the passing of a State law that has shaped and secured our cherished legacy of religious liberty.
Our forefathers, seeking refuge from religious persecution, believed in the eternal truth that freedom is not a gift from the government, but a sacred right from Almighty God. On the coattails of the American Revolution, on January 16, 1786, the Virginia General Assembly passed the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. This seminal bill, penned by Thomas Jefferson, states that, “all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.”
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