Today’s displaced religious minorities flock to our country’s shores in search of some country that remains committed to religious liberty. The American commitment to liberty—and especially religious liberty—recognizes that freedom grows when none are required to hide who they really are in the free exercise of religion. Then as now, the world has nowhere else to turn in order to be both free from oppression and yet free to freely exercise religion. This drive to provide freedom from oppression and freedom to exercise that faith created a heritage unique to the American experience from our founding as a nation. When telling the story of America, we rightly recount how the founders of our country sought to be free from something.

Source: Fox News July 04, 2016 15:11 UTC