Religious Freedom

Assertion: While the Federal Government should not favor one religion over another in the form of blatant or oppressive discrimination, neither should it fail to recognize that the United States of America is a Judeo-Christian nation and act accordingly. Indeed, these United States were founded on Judeo-Christian values: Each and every individual state in this Union made it a point to request the favor or blessing of a Creator God in their individual State Constitution. There can be no doubt that the United States of America is a Judeo-Christian nation, and her Government shall make no laws which hinder or abridge the rights of all Americans to freely practice their religion and/or support the laws and traditions thereof. The right of all people to worship as they choose is not a privilege to be bestowed by any King or denied by any Tyrant. It is a Divine Right, granted by our Creator, and American citizens are so endowed with the right to wear or display religious symbols and to participate in individual or group prayers, public or private; so, too, are they allowed to decline participation in any organized religion or religious activity. These and similar rights shall not be abridged by man or government, nor hindered by political-driven sentiment such as political correctness. We believe that school prayer is a good thing; that having the Ten Commandments posted anywhere is a good thing; that having “In God We Trust” on our currency is a good thing; and that having God in our Pledge of Allegiance is a good thing.

Why This Is Important: Only the most belligerent or ignorant would argue that America was not founded on Judeo-Christian values, or that Judeo-Christian values as a whole have not helped to significantly shape and civilize Mankind, usually for the better. From Arts and Letters to Science and Technology, those values have driven us forward, saints and sinners alike, out of the darkness and into the light. You don’t have to be an active participant in any religious organization to reap the rewards of a better, safer and more civil world. If for no other reason, we should uphold and defend every citizen’s right to practice their religion and to worship as they see fit.

Constitutional Basis: The Bill of Rights, Amendment I declares that Congress shall make no law with respect to religion, nor can it prohibit the free exercise thereof.

Quote: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” – Thomas Jefferson