Issue Position: Religious Liberty

Issue Position

Perhaps more than any other of our God given rights that our founding fathers recognized, freedom of religion has been the one most trampled on. A quick tour of Washington DC easily proves that God and the Bible were a vital part of government. Bible verses are engraved in our official federal buildings and monuments, and for the first two hundred years of our country's history prayer was often invoked at official government meetings - and not just "token" prayers to a nameless God, but devout and often lengthy prayers to a personal God (Congress still opens with a prayer from the Chaplain.) The first amendment reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." but time after time government "authorities" have made a routine of "prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

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