Quotes About Religious freedom

I don't bring religion into the square.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

Mum, " she frowned "if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why can't one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?

In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.

I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs...but to teach my faith to my children...and to share it with anyone who will listen...that is my right too!

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.