Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium

America was founded on Christian principles, and our system of government is based upon the belief that we are a nation “under God.”  Our rights come from God, not from government.  In The Pledge: One Nation Under God, William J. Murray outlines the history of early-American settlers and their overall reliance upon God in every phase of life.

Learn what the Founding Fathers believed about God and government – and why the idea of “separation of church and state” is nothing more than a myth created by one Supreme Court decision in 1947.  Yet, that one decision has resulted in dozens of ill-informed rulings that have undermined religious freedom and exalted secularism as the state-protected religion in America.

The Pledge teaches Americans not to regard their freedoms lightly and eloquently echoes the words of Thomas Jefferson – “The God who gave us life gave us liberty.”