Religious Freedom Day, 2008; By the President of the United States of America -- A Proclamation

January 14, 2008

Source: Standard News Wire

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Thomas Jefferson counted the freedom of worship as one of America's greatest blessings. He said it was "a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government, and yet proved by our experience to be its best support." On Religious Freedom Day, we celebrate the 1786 passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.