A Martyr for Religious Freedom: Mary Dyer (with Paul Matzko)
The Founding Fathers get a lot of the credit for establishing religious liberty in America, but Quakers like Mary Dyer died for the cause.
Portraits of Liberty · Libertarianism.org
August 26, 202137m 4s
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Show Notes
Mary Dyer left England to pursue her religious beliefs without persecution in the New World. However, once she arrived, she quickly realized the hypocrisy of the Puritan authorities, who persecuted her, even fashioning her tragic miscarriage as a "monstrous birth" in order to discredit her. Her execution, and that of many religious dissidents like her, carved out the space for the kind of religious freedom we so often take for granted today.
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