Mr. Speaker. I am proud today to stand in the memory and footsteps of our Founding Fathers for the principle of religious freedom. The first immigrants to the shores of I our country. were driven in good part to I escape from religious persecution. As this country took shape and the great foundational documents were drawn. the t Declaration of Independence. the Constitution of the United States. these memories burned brightly. With infinite care and inspired wisdom. they determined to prevent the kinds of persecution to which they had been subjected in the past. From this heritage then. was the Bill of Rights conceived and forged.
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