Quotes About Religious freedom

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

The U.S. should prohibit perpetrators and supporters of Islamist brutality from entering the country while embracing advocates for religious freedom. End of story.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

We have no prejudiced stand, nor are we aggressive on the Sabarimala issue. The government is duty-bound to implement the Supreme Court order.

In the words of the Iranian political philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, "We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

Los judíos incluso estaban exentos de rendir culto directo al emperador, algo que Roma imponía prácticamente a cualquier otra comunidad religiosa bajo su dominio. Todo

The genie of religious fanaticism is rampant in present-day America, and the Founding Fathers would have been horrified. Whether or not it is right to embrace the paradox and blame the secular constitution that they devised, the founders most certainly were secularists who believed in keeping religion out of politics, and that is enough to place them firmly on the side of those who object, for example, to ostentatious displays of the Ten Commandments in government-owned public places.

If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is obliged to take it seriously . . .

The right to be Christian' seems in this case to mean 'the right to poke your nose into other people's private lives.

People worship different things; there must be 'no coercion in matters of faith!

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.