Public schools Quote by James T. Patterson

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

— Robert Bork

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It…

— Robert Bork

Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart…

— Pat Buchanan

Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others have attempted…

— Mathew Staver

“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the 1960s the…

— Kurt Andersen

“In March 1947, he publicly condemned the abolition of religion in all schools, warning that, “promising freedom of religion while creating institutions of irreligiousness…

— Anne Applebaum

Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion…

— Rachel Maddow

Once involved in the school-prayer fight, I rapidly became aware of, and appalled by, the political and economic power of the Church in America…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an…

— John M Swomley

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

— Fred Barnes

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal…

— George Washington

“They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.”

— Ken Ham