Mary Barrett Dyer
deliberately gave her life for "liberty of conscience," which is the
freedom to practice and believe as your conscience dictates without
government interference. The attempted blending of church-state
functions continues in state legislatures across America even today. In
fact, it's greatly increased since 2000--the instances are too numerous to mention here, but some of them include government funding for religious activities and schools (and conversely, directing what Christian schools and hospitals may or may not do), the designation of corporations as "people" who have the right to discriminate, and the rewriting of history curricula to eliminate certain events and pump up others to fit a political agenda.
Mary Dyer's life and death, her motives for standing up for liberty of conscience (religious liberty), and William Dyer's participation in the historic legislation that led to religious liberty's enshrinement in the US Constitution are detailed in three five-star-rated books about the Dyers:
Mary Dyer Illuminated (Vol. 1),
Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This (Vol. 2), and
The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport (Vol. 3, nonfiction).
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