Quotes About Religious freedom

The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square.

The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith are kept separate from public life. Religious people have an equal right to participate in the public square and to have their contributions to Oklahoma history and society recognized.

Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.

Christians are increasingly being punished for the free exercise of their faith and for standing on God's Word and holding to biblical convictions about sin. This is especially apparent with the gay lobby.

There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

It's not illegal to pray. We can own a Bible. We can utter Jesus's name without fear of being tossed into jail or killed. When we refuse to bow down to the idols of our culture we may lose our job. We may lose some friends. But we won't be thrown into a fiery furnace.

Granted, those of us who take Scripture seriously are often written off as ignorant or narrow-minded bigots in America today. And it's becoming increasingly common to be discriminated against for simply articulating biblical values. But let's be real. We've got it easy compared to many who are attempting to live their lives for Jesus in other parts of the world. We have nothing to whine about.

We're no longer trying to impose our will on non-Christians. We're trying to keep non-Christians from imposing their will on us—and our churches. If you haven't noticed, the culture wars are over. We lost.

Separation of church and state' meant freedom to worship, not freedom from worship.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)—interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree.

I wore a uniform to stand up for all rights and that means I don't pick or choose which I defend, whether it's for equality rights or women's rights. I've been consistent on that in my public life. I've also stood up for religious freedom, conscience rights of freedom of speech.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.