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Paula White:Today is Religious Freedom Day. 8 out of 10 people globally face restrictions on religious freedom. One of my great honors has been serving President Trump, his administration, and people around the world of all faiths to work diligently in fighting for and protecting everyone’s freedom for their religion.I am reminded of a few words penned by President in 2019: “The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth shared an experience common to many of America's first settlers: they had fled their home countries to escape religious persecution. Aware of this history, our Nation's Founding Fathers readily understood that a just government must respect the deep yearning for truth and openness to the transcendent that are part of the human spirit. For this reason, from the beginning, our constitutional republic has endeavored to protect a robust understanding of religious freedom. On January 16, 1786, Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom to protect the right of individual conscience and religious exercise and to prohibit the compulsory support of any church. Authored by Thomas Jefferson, the statute set forth the principle that religious liberty is an inherent right and not a gift of the state. Jefferson's statute served as the inspiration and model for the legal architecture of the conscience protections in the First Amendment, drafted by James Madison just a few years later.” #religiousfreedomday #faith