Religious Liberty, Then and Now

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Religious Liberty, Then and Now
      

Three hundred and fifty years ago, in May 1658, the civil authorities of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned meetings of the Society of Friends, familiarly known as Quakers. A few months later they would institute the death penalty for Quakers who returned to the colony after having been expelled. Despite what we may have been taught in grade school about the Puritans and their search for religious freedom, it was "freedom for me, but not for thee" that they sought and practiced.
         

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