Last year when atheist Joseph Richardson delivered an invocation at a meeting, one commissioner decided to give a second invocation… as if the first one didn’t count because it didn’t address the Christian God.
This past Tuesday was the 232nd anniversary of the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, a day we’ve come to know as “Religious Freedom Day.” Penned by Thomas Jefferson, the Virginia Statute was one of his three proudest achievements. We know this because of his specific instructions to include it on his gravestone along with “Author of the Declaration of American Independence” and “Father of the University of Virginia”.
Afterwards, you can hear Commissioner Anthony Sabatini, the same guy who previously delivered a second invocation to counteract the atheist one, respond to Richardson’s words by saying “God bless you.”
I guess he couldn’t stand to let an atheist have the last word.
