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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextFAITH MONTH
Mrs. HYDE-SMITH. Mr. President, every April, faithful Americans come together in prayer and thanksgiving to celebrate Faith Month. I embrace the unique opportunity that we have to recognize this time and acknowledge one of the foundational virtues of our great country. I also commend Concerned Women for America, the Nation's largest public policy organization for women, and other faith-based organizations for encouraging people to use this month to actively strengthen their faith.
sign a document declaring the birth of a new nation, one “conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Thus was born a nation that became the greatest force for prosperity, goodness, justice, and freedom that the world has ever known.
Those words were only made possible by a culture founded on faith. Generations before that clandestine meeting, the Pilgrims, fleeing religious persecution in their European homelands, sailed to the shores of Massachusetts. They undertook a perilous journey to an unknown world in pursuit of the right to freely worship God. Ever since, that right has been central at the heart of the American experience.
the new Nation. When tensions ran high at the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the delegates begin each day with prayer, arguing that “God governs in the affairs of men.” John Adams believed that our Nation could not function without faith, famously writing that “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Thomas Jefferson promoted and attended regular church services
the tenets of the Christian faith. America as we know it would not exist otherwise. Only through Christianity can men be created equal in the image of their Creator. Only through ultimate allegiance to a God in Heaven can a people declare themselves free of the yoke of tyrannical, earthly governments. By accepting “the Laws of Nature” established by “Nature's God,” we can claim to have inalienable rights that are not granted by any legislative body.
beginning, rooted in faith in God. By our continued steadfast trust in Him, we see how richly we have been blessed. Americans have reached heights no nation has ever dreamed of, from the wild Western frontier to the surface of the Moon, the eradication of slavery and the fight against communism, by the animating spirit of faith.
their faith that we do here. As we celebrate Faith Month in America, there are Christians in Nigeria, Syria, and Bangladesh having their churches burned, their businesses destroyed, and their families tortured or murdered simply for their belief in Jesus Christ. We can never take for granted the blessed freedom that we have as Americans.
erosion of faith's influence in our society is evident. The climbing rates of abortions, the declining numbers of marriages, confusion over sexual reality, normalization of assisted suicide, the loss of Christianity's moral foundations are sadly more apparent.
against efforts to further remove faith from the public square. Let us remain on guard against those who wish to restrict this most cherished right of freedom to worship, which has made America great.
Americans to celebrate our shared Christian foundations. We thank God for the riches our Nation has enjoyed so far, for the blessing it is to live in a country that cherishes the right to worship freely. May we hold steadfast to our national motto, “In God We Trust,” and continue to look for guidance from Him who has made this Nation great.