GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION
THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF WYOMING states: “We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and desiring to secure them to ourselves and perpetuate them to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.”
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA states that: “We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
ON JUNE 21, 1776, JOHN ADAMS wrote, “Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.”
GEORGE WASHINGTON enunciated, “Animated alone by the pure spirit of Christianity, and conducting ourselves as the faithful subjects of our free government, we may enjoy temporal and spiritual felicity.”
THOMAS JEFFERSON, author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote, “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are the gift of God.”
JAMES MADISON, father of the U.S. Constitution, advocated “the diffusion of the light of Christianity in our nation” in his Memorial and Remonstrance.
PATRICK HENRY quoted Proverbs 14:34 for our nation: “Righteousness alone can exalt a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”
GEORGE MASON in his Virginia Declaration of Rights, forerunner to our Bill of Rights, affirmed, “That it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.”
THANKSGIVING week is an appropriate time to center attention on thanks to Almighty God for the “Blessing of Liberty;” to ask His help in reinsuring domestic Tranquility,” and to recognize our national need to reaffirm our “reliance on the protection of divine Providence” in keeping America a free and independent nation.
FOR THESE SIGNIFICANT REASONS, I, JIM GERINGER, Governor of the State of Wyoming, do hereby proclaim November 23-29, 1997 to be “CHRISTIAN HERITAGE WEEK” in Wyoming.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Executive Seal of the Governor of Wyoming to be affixed this 10th day of September, 1997.
Jim Gerlinger
Governor
Diana J. Ohman
Secretary of State
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