NOTICE: THIS IS NOT OPEN COMMENTS.
It will be the 220th anniversary come this New Years Day of Thomas Jefferson’s response from the White House to the letter he had received from the Danbury Baptists expressing their concern about the protection of religion liberty in America.
Conventional wisdom holds that there are only two possible views about Jefferson’s famous letter and it’s most memorable line about “building a wall of separation between Church & State:”
Either the wall was intended to keep government out of the church, or it was intended to keep the church out of the government.
The truth is, Jefferson’s wall of separation was meant to protect every individual’s freedom of religious practice and expression without fear of penalty or retaliation from the government or any private party.
Such an understanding is at the heart of the following superb animated *video from the First Liberty Institute, based in Plano, Texas. Kelley Shackelford’s troops are leading the charge in the courts across the nation in multiple cases defending genuine religious freedom and that wall of separation.