President Donald Trump announced that the Department of Education will issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in public schools.
“To have a great nation you have to have religion,” Trump said at the Museum of the Bible Monday morning.
Trump spoke at the second meeting of the Religious Liberty Commission.
Trump honored students whose religious liberties had reportedly been violated at public school.
A young boy spoke about being required to read a book about transgender ideology at school. His parents complained, and the boy was bullied at school.
“I believe kids like me should be able to live our faith at school without being forced to go against what we believe,” he said. “I hope no other family has to go through what mine did.”
Trump also slammed Sen. Tim Kaine for his comments last week that rights from government, rather than God.
“The ineffectual senator from Virginia, man named Tim Kaine, stated that the notion our rights come from our Creator is, quote, ‘extremely troubling to him,’” Trump said.
“But as everyone in this room understands, it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God, and it’s this Declaration of Independence that proclaims we’re endowed by our creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself.”