Anti religious Quote by F. LaGard Smith

Religion is a personal, private matter and parents, not public school officials, should decide their children's religious training. We should not have teacher-led prayers…

— George W. Bush

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I…

— Adam Hamilton

This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).

— Michael Newdow

If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and…

— Sam Ervin

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a…

— Nat Hentoff

It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in…

— Anonymous

Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That…

— Alice Roberts

What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite…

— Laura Moser

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many…

— Norman Dorsen

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

— Charles Haynes

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

— William F. Buckley, Jr