Friday, April 13 marked the 275th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birthday. A renaissance man with a long and accomplished legacy, Jefferson played a major role in the founding of the United States of America—and establishing its strong protections for religious freedom for all.
There can be no better way to celebrate one of America's greatest statesmen than by reclaiming his legacy of religious liberty and living as boldly as he did in freedom's defense.
It is sadly ironic that a few select words of Jefferson—the "wall of separation between church and state"—have been abused and distorted today by those seeking to dismantle the foundations of our republic.
This one sentence from Jefferson's personal correspondence has been uprooted from its original context, used to bludgeon people of faith into civic silence, and even advance government intrusion into the homes of the faithful.
Those who seek to hijack the phrase "separation of church and state" to impose secular humanism on our political life can only do so by willfully turning a blind eye to the volumes of Jefferson's other writings, as well as his own actions as president. Those actions speak louder than any words.
But even apart from abusing the phrase "separation of church and state," the left will undoubtedly continue to target people of faith by seeking to undermine their rights of conscience and free exercise of religion.
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