Quotes About Religious freedom

The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.

All religious prisoners were to be released, heresy trials were suspended, and the death penalty for heresy was abolished. The Protestants, whom Sylvie now heard referred to by their new nickname of Huguenots, were rejoicing.

I did not become a Christian to live the 50s and 60s all over a second time. Muslims have more rights and freedom of religion than I do as a Christian. Tell a Muslim he can't pray at school or at the airport or downtown when prayer time is called for, and see what happens. Tell a Muslim cleric serving as a chaplain in our brilliant military that he has to marry a same-sex couple, and see what happens.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

During the second half of the nineteenth century', wrote Gilbert's younger brother Cecil, 'the middle class was absolutely bubbling over with ideas…. It was rioting in its new-found intellectual liberty as heartily as the men of the Restoration rioted in their new-found moral liberty. Everywhere you found households where new theories of politics, philosophy, religion, or science were eagerly welcomed, debated, and

the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. "They

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Propelled to search for pockets of religious freedom, the Spanish exiles made their way to various corners of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, including Constantinople, Salonika, and Sarajevo. By the mid-sixteenth century, Constantinople had 50,000 Jews, a mix of Spanish exiles, native Jews known as Romaniot, Italians, and Ashkenazim who were organized into scores of religious communities

This same standard could one day be applied to Christian colleges vis-à-vis sexual-orientation discrimination.

Nationwide, any child can pray to any god they wish at any time, so why do we need organized prayers in schools? To pressure those who don't want to pray into doing so, and for no other reason.

A person's right to be human outweighs anybody's human rights to be religious.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine.

All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

I don't judge people based on their religion. But I judge them based on how they respect the French constitution.

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.