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The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and introduced into the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond in 1779. [1] On January 16, 1786, the Assembly enacted the statute into the state's law.
Its mission is to commemorate and educate about freedom of religion and conscience as proclaimed in Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Located in the Shockoe Slip district of downtown Richmond, the Center sits on the site where Jefferson's statute was enacted into law by the Virginia General Assembly on January 16, 1786 ...
Ragosta, John A. Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped to Win the American Revolution & Secured Religious Liberty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) Ragosta, John Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Legacy, America's Creed (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013) Rutman, Darrett B., and Anita H. Rutman.
Religious Freedom Day commemorates the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. The statute, written by Jefferson in 1777 and shepherded through the legislature by James Madison in 1786, became the basis for the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and led to freedom of ...
The bill prohibits discrimination against churches during a state of emergency, but critics say it could allow them to violate the law with impunity. Beshear signs religious freedom bill that ...
One of the bill’s most outspoken critics, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, offered an amendment that sought to widen religious freedom provisions, but did so after opposing the bill for most of the last ...
In advocating for the bill, Rep. Jon Echols, R-Oklahoma City, said it is already legal for public schools to allow students to attend "release time" religious and moral classes off school grounds ...
As Jefferson wrote in his Notes on Virginia, pre-Revolutionary colonial law held that "if a person brought up a Christian denies the being of a God, or the Trinity ... he is punishable on the first offense by incapacity to hold any office." [33] In 1779, Jefferson proposed "The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom", which was adopted in 1786 ...