Virtual Sandwiched In with Ron Brown - Flushing, Queens: The Birthplace of Religious Freedom

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Flushing: Where Religious Freedom was Born
The most famous American document demanding religious freedom for all is the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657. The Dutch founded the town of Flushing and named it Vlissingen in 1645. They banished the Baptists, Quakers, and other religious minorities to the distant town to protect the fine Dutch Protestants from these other strange religious beliefs. Governor Peter Stuyvesant took over the colony of New Amsterdam two years later and he decided to rid his colony of these religious outsiders. The residents of Flushing revolted and sent the famous Flushing Remonstrance to Holland that demanded religious freedom for Christians, Jews, and even Muslims. Stuyvesant was overruled and Flushing became famous as the home of American religious freedom and diversity. Today it is a city where Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus live in freedom and tolerance.