Code of Virginia - Title 57 Religious And Charitable Matters; Cemeteries - Chapter 1 Religious Freedom

• 57-1 Act for religious freedom recited
  The General Assembly, on January 16, 1786, passed an act in the following words: "Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts ...
• 57-2 Rights asserted therein reaffirmed
  The General Assembly doth now again declare that the rights asserted in the said act are of the natural rights of mankind. (Code 1919, § ...
• 57-2.01 Religious Freedom Week and Day
  On the 200th Anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom, the 1986 Virginia General Assembly commends their eighteenth century predecessors for ...
• 57-2.02 Religious freedom preserved; definitions; applicability; construction; remedies
  A. As used in this section: "Demonstrates" means meets the burdens of going forward with the evidence and of persuasion under the standard of clear ...
• 57-2.1 Advertising by hotels, etc., that persons find objectionable because of religion
  (1) Definitions. - Except where the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following terms shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them: "Person" means ...

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