Religious Freedom Week: What would Martin do?
I think Martin Luther King, Jr, would have supported Religious Freedom Day activities. I don't know what specific activities he would have supported.
National Religious Freedom Day commemorates the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. That statute became the basis for the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and led to freedom of religion for all Americans.
Religious Freedom Day has been officially proclaimed on January 16 in an annual statement by the President of the United States since 1993. [Wikipedia]
Religious Freedom Week — What did we accomplish at Daily Kos this year?
We posted the following diaries and spread the news about Religious Freedom Day:
Our Archive
Here’s the archive of all Religious Freedom Day diaries at Daily Kos, beginning in 2015.
Debriefing Questions
- How did you celebrate Religious Freedom Day this year?
- How do you think people in the United States should celebrate Religious Freedom Day?
- What do you think we should do differently next year at Daily Kos?
- If you’d like to post an RFD diary next year, please let us know in the comments or send a kosmail to the group called Religious Freedom Day.
- What do you need to say about Religious Freedom Day?
- Feel free to ask an open-ended question about Religious Freedom Day.
This is a community story, published for Support the Dream Defenders. Members of Support the Dream Defenders supported Religious Freedom Day this year. In past years, the Daily Kos group Support the Dream Defenders has supported expansion of the ACA by a letters-to-the-editor campaign and many other real-world projects, including crowd-sourcing the Michael Brown Over-Policed Rights Bill of 2015.
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