Quotes About Religious liberty

Liberty does not mean being given state sanction to force your own ideas—religious or otherwise—on other people. It does not mean being given a free pass from laws you don't like.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

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.

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.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Those of us living in countries where religious freedom is allowed should regularly give thanks to God for that freedom.

Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.