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The God-given right of religious liberty is best exercised
when church and state are separate.
Government is Gods agency to protect individual rights
and to conduct civil affairs; in exercising these responsibilities,
officials are entitled to respect and cooperation.
Religious liberty entails freedom of conscience: to worship
or not to worship; to profess, practice and promulgate religious
beliefs or to change them. In exercising these rights, however,
one must respect the equivalent rights of all others.
Attempts to unite church and state are opposed to the
interests of each, subversive of human rights and potentially
persecuting in character; to oppose union, lawfully and
honorably, is not only the citizens duty but the essence
of the Golden Ruleto treat others as one wishes to
be treated.
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