First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty

00:00:02 Brian Stokes Mitchell: In the dawning days of the American Republic

00:03:39 were going to be watching it as well.

00:07:50 and clergymen themselves came under popular fire.

00:11:03 yet he'd decided beforehand that he would be

00:14:42 that by law could claim the membership

00:18:11 and America inherited that anti-catholicism

00:21:53 He was a great fulminator

00:25:03 if revealed in public, so he kept it very private.

00:28:44 well-known for his harsh condemnation

00:32:13 quite probably the richest man in colonial America

00:35:57 Rights that came from a king, or even from a mob

00:39:56 No one has ever come up with better principles.

00:43:26 for the rebel army to disintegrate.

00:46:47 Man as Washington: In no instance

00:50:31 willing to let the others exist.

00:54:11 His home state was in the midst

00:57:31 Something had to be done.

01:01:08 Against the inclinations of many delegates

01:05:21 He did not want religion to be a divisive force in any way.

01:07:56 than Washington would want to tell the people

01:10:50 and once we have that pulling us together

01:14:44 Citizens actually believed that Jefferson

01:18:13 It requires argument and debate

01:21:52 but one being who can understand the universe