Amendments Quote by Don Feder

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected…

— Orrin Hatch

If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try…

— John Shelby Spong

If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.

— F. LaGard Smith

Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space regularly.

— Mike Royko

Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to…

— John Cornyn

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.

— Geoff Dyer

Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful,…

— Charles Colson

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

— Ernest Istook

If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that…

— Ian O'Doherty

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK…

— Elliott Erwitt

I vehemently oppose clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op, especially a photo op that makes a mockery of a place of…

— Mike Espy

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

— James A. Michener