by Jorge Gomez • 3 minutes
Without religious liberty, America wouldn’t be America. Religious freedom is the cornerstone. It’s the freedom that started it all.
On Monday, Oct. 27—which marked 250 days until our nation’s 250th birthday on July 4— First Liberty launched a major campaign all about our religious freedom. Together we will celebrate, commemorate and educate.
It’s called “Faith. Freedom: 250 Years. Then. Now. Forever.”
America was founded on a bold and revolutionary idea: that our rights come from God, not government. We see this all throughout our nation’s history, going back to the first settlers from Europe who came to the New World in search of a place where they could freely and peacefully worship God.
And that’s precisely why religious freedom is the First Freedom listed in the First Amendment.
For 250 years, religious liberty has been the right that makes all civil, political, economic and social liberties possible. The Founders understood that freedom of conscience is essential to all our other rights: speech, press, assembly, and appeal. If government can infringe on your deepest beliefs, nothing is off limits—not your property, your family, or your conscience.
That’s why for 30 years, First Liberty has been on the frontlines defending this sacred gift – in classrooms, the military, houses of worship, and communities across the country. As America prepares to celebrate a historic milestone, this moment is more than a date in time—it’s a turning point to ensure faith remains free in the next chapter of our nation’s story.
Without religious liberty, no other freedom survives. And if we don’t defend it, history shows us what rushes in to replace it: tyranny.
The question before us is urgent: Will the next generation of Americans inherit the freedom to live out their faith?
Today, tyranny doesn’t always come wearing boots. Sometimes, it’s welcomed in through silence. It arrives through cultural pressure, legal overreach, and quiet coercion—whenever Americans are told to keep their faith out of sight.
Cancel culture penalizes people for expressing deeply held beliefs—whether a teacher disciplined for mentioning prayer or a student mocked for quoting Scripture.
Government mandates force citizens to choose between their convictions and their careers, as seen when Christian business owners and federal employees have been punished for following their conscience.
Hostility to faith grows louder—and more aggressive—when public prayer, religious symbols, or moral viewpoints are labeled “intolerant.”
We are witnessing the early signs of state power eclipsing our most sacred and foundational right as Americans.
Because religious freedom is the right that matters the most, it’s also the right that gets attacked the most. If we fail to protect it today, America—as we know it—may not have a future.
“Faith. Freedom: 250 Years. Then. Now. Forever” invites you and Americans from coast to coast to stand with First Liberty in resolve. Because if we don’t defend our First Freedom now, we risk losing them all.
For everyone who loves and cherishes our country, this is a call to courage.
Now is the time to honor the legacy of those who came before us, defend the rights we cherish today, and secure the blessings of liberty for generations to come.
That’s our calling. That’s our mission. To stand firm and fight without compromise to defend that timeless and everlasting truth that every person’s rights are “endowed by their Creator.”
The brilliant minds who penned the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution knew that for our nation to survive, these words would need to be written not just with a quill pen—but with timeless wisdom.
Our Founders understood this—and sacrificed greatly to create a constitutional system where no king, no government official, no politician or bureaucrat could take our rights away.
Tyranny fades when truth is spoken—when Americans of all faiths refuse to back down. This is the spirit of America’s 250th: a renewal of conviction, courage and calling. 250 years later, we can enjoy blessings of liberty because of the ideals and foundations on which America is built. And now, it’s up to us to secure them for the next 250.
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