Fortunately, the Founders of America agreed. They believed in a God who not only creates us equal, but endows all of us with certain natural rights that must be protected by government. And for them, the first of those rights was religious freedom. They guaranteed this right in the First Amendment and called it the “free exercise of religion.” For two centuries it was known as America’s “first freedom.”
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of the first freedom for our nation, and the world. The Founders’ way of dealing with religion and religious freedom was not only unprecedented, but a turning point in the recognition of human dignity for all mankind.
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