Affirming the importance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right that is essential to a free society and is protected for all Americans by the text of the Constitution, and recognizing the 230th anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. 2016-01-13 Introduced in House Honors the 230th anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on Religious Freedom Day.

Affirms that:

  • religious freedom includes the right to live, work, associate, and worship in accordance with one's beliefs for people of any faith or of no faith;
  • all Americans can be unified in supporting religious freedom because it is a fundamental human right; and
  • the American people will remain forever unshackled in matters of faith.
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