President Bush declares Religious Freedom Day
President George W. Bush
Washington DC, Jan 13, 2009 / 09:03 pm (CNA).- With less than a week remaining in his presidential term, President Bush has proclaimed January 16 as Religious Freedom Day, a day to celebrate the United States’ “legacy of religious liberty.”
After noting that “religious freedom is the foundation of a healthy and hopeful society,” the President explained that on Religious Freedom Day, “we recognize the importance of the 1786 passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom” and also the “first liberties enshrined in our Constitution's Bill of Rights, which guarantee the free exercise of religion for all Americans and prohibit an establishment of religion,” he said, according to a White House press release.
President Bush continued by recalling that the U.S. was founded by people seeking to escape religious persecution, “and the religious liberty they found here remains one of this land's greatest blessings.”
“The United States also stands with religious dissidents and believers from around the globe who practice their faith peacefully,” he added. “Freedom is not a grant of government or a right for Americans alone; it is the birthright of every man, woman, and child throughout the world. No human freedom is more fundamental than the right to worship in accordance with one's conscience.”
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