Sen. Mike Lee: Religious freedom thrives in US because America is ‘a nation of heretics’
District of Columbia | July 14, 2021
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said the United States has a strong history of religious freedom because it’s “a nation of heretics.”
Lee was one of multiple guest speakers at an event on Tuesday sponsored by the International Center for Law and Religion Studies about religious freedom in the Americas.
During his comments, the senator said that “in a country like ours, in the United States of America, basically everyone falls into” the category of being a religious minority “in one way or another, at one time or another.”
“One of the reasons why religious liberty has been able to flourish here is because we are a nation of heretics,” said Lee. “We were founded by heretics, and we breeded more heretics.”…
(Excerpts from the Christian Post)