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Founders' Ideas on Freedom of Religion

In the USA, the right of religious freedom is now attacked in the name of a higher obligation to respect selected secular rights.

Interesting Lunch & Learn Lecture September 23: Dr. Colleen A. Sheehan of Villanova University will speak on James Madison and Thomas Jefferson’s ideas about the free exercise of religion and conscience. These ideas, stemming from unchanging natural law, are contained in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, with its ever-changing interpretation. More info about the speaker and topic at this link.

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