Religious Freedom

A couple of weeks ago I saw an advertisement for an art/slogan/paragraph contest about--you guessed it--religious freedom. I like doing creative things once and awhile, and it is always nice to have a reason to do it, and I think religious freedom is important so I decided to participate.
My first thought was how religious freedom is something that previous generations havre really sacrificed for. The Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower were persecuted for their religious beliefs and thus came to America. Anne Hutchinson was an early American (1630s) who was banished from her home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony because she believed differently from the other Puritans who lived there. They sacrificed for their own religious freedom, but they didn't really encourage religious freedom in others. (Pennsylvania's beginning is probably a better example of true religious freedom but I don't know as much about it and I don't have ancestors from there).
Later, Mormon pioneers crossed the American plains in order to find religious freedom for themselves. Although, I'm not convinced religious freedom has been done well in America it has been a significant theme.
However, this idea wasn't working for me (maybe because I know too much history...) so I tried another line of thought. I remember once in highschool my history teacher asked if we thought politicians, judges, etc. should keep their religious views seperate from their political policies. In one of my unguarded moments I think I replied that that was stupid and impossible. I stick to that statement. If someone is truly religious they have internalized the precepts of their faith and those precepts will then affect the decisions they make and the way they look at their world. Which is not to say that everyone who belongs to one religion or even one religious sect are going to think about political issues the same way. I chose to do my picture more along these lines. Here is my current version.

Here is the finished version.