(1) On this date in 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, making it harder for government to interfere with religious practices. (
New York Times archives)
“On the morality of abortion: It seems to me that every child has the right to be born loved and wanted, and every person has the right to control — male and female — to control their own bodies from the skin in. It seems to me that every child has the right to be born loved and wanted, and every person has the right to control — male and female — to control their own bodies from the skin in.”
The mother wrote that she and her husband once believed “simple anatomy” separated a boy from a girl. But she said after her child called herself a girl at age 4 and wanted to wear girls’ clothing, they questioned their understanding. She said they sought help from medical professionals as well as a church, family, the school and friends. She wrote that the process has taught them acceptance. “Through this education process, we learned that gender extends beyond the sex a person is assigned at birth,” she wrote.
(5) The Most Evangelical Founding Father?, by Thomas Kidd
“Perhaps the most evangelical of all the Founding Fathers, however, is one whom few Americans recall today: Elias Boudinot. Baptized as an infant in Philadelphia by the great evangelist George Whitefield, Boudinot embraced and defended evangelical principles throughout his prominent career as a Patriot in New Jersey and U.S. government official. …As I discuss in my document reader The Founding Fathers and the Debate Over Religion in Revolutionary America, Boudinot was a member and president of the Continental Congress, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the director of the U.S. Mint from 1795 to 1805. Boudinot became increasingly alarmed about the rise of Deism and the attacks on traditional Christianity by Thomas Paine and others. He helped found the American Bible Society in 1816, and became the president of the American Society for Evangelizing the Jews in 1820 (John Quincy Adams was a vice president of this organization). Boudinot wrote Christian treatises such as The Age of Revelation and The Second Advent, which used prophecies from the Bible to argue that America risked losing the blessings of God if it continued to pursue faithlessness and worldliness.”
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