March for Religious Freedom

Sunday, January 13, 2013 is Religious Freedom Day, this is the day that Fredericksburg celebrates the writing of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. Believed to have been drafted here in Fredericksburg by Thomas Jefferson in 1777. The Religious Freedom Monument on Washington Avenue was built to commemorate the drafting of the Statute that is the basis of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

A parade, composed mostly of local church groups, starts in the parking lot South of the Fredericksburg Train Station at 200 Lafayette Blvd at 1:15pm and proceeds through town to the Monument. (We need to assemble at the train station by 1:00pm.)

FSH along with the other Fredericksburg Coalition of Reason (http://unitedcor.org/fredericksburg/page/home) (CoR) member organizations will join the parade again this year. Other CoR member organizations are Fredericksburg Skeptics, Reading Skeptically, Fredericksburg Parenting Beyond Belief, and Conservative Skeptics of Virginia. We intend to abide by the rule that banner messages must contain only the name of the organization.

We hope to see more variety this year, last year it was just Christians and us non-believers. There must be Wiccans, Pagans, Buddists, Moslems, Hindus, Zoroastrians in the area who value religious freedom.