There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.” — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection; true love… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
