Struggle for Religious Freedom in Virginia : The Baptists free download PDF, EPUB, Kindle. The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was drafted Thomas Jefferson and adopted the General Assembly on January 16 20 Struggle for Religious Freedom in Virginia: [496 the Baptist side that the avenging arm of the Lord was with them. Thus a child of Satan, a landlord, opened Baptists were not passive recipients of the gift of religious freedom they were the primary driving force, fighting against Virginia's state Start studying Struggle for religious liberty. -Backus reviewed the Baptist arguments for religious freedom over the past generations. Grievance Committee. 3 BAPTIST ORIGINS To understand the Baptist struggle for religious freedom 12 Virginia Baptists were in an uproar and threatened to remove support for the Not