“I was at Salisbury Cathedral about ten days ago, and they have one of four extant copies of Magna Carta…the very first freedom articulated is religious liberty. Everything else flows from religious liberty, or is built around it.
Therefore you adjust and accommodate other things around that freedom. You don’t adjust and accommodate that freedom around other things that are more fundamental, because nothing else is.”
~ Philip Ryken, president of Wheaton College, quoted in the National Review.
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Jefferson’s Robust Views of Religious Freedom
Founders’ Quotes: The reason they protected Religious Liberty in the First Amendment
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Book Review: “Back Fired: A nation founded for religious tolerance no longer tolerates the religion of its founders”
Marriage, Religious Liberty, and the “Grand Bargain”
Do the Church Fathers, the Founding Fathers, and Catholic Saints Really Go Together?
The indispensable nature of religious liberty v. the Obama Administration
Clearing up the confusion: Jefferson’s Intent regarding the Separation of Church and State
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Cardinal Dolan: That ‘Conscience Thing’ Is ‘Ennobling,’ ‘Enlightened’
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