Bears Quote by John Shelby Spong

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in…

— Charles Colson

Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

— Yolanda Adams

I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where…

— Edward Kennedy

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving…

— Robert Bork

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

— Jeb Bush

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

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an…

— Anonymous

The Constitution forbids states from banning all religion from public spaces and from making churches the ghettos of religion where all manifestations of faith…

— Scott Pruitt

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

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

— Ernest Istook

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the…

— Frank Murphy

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the…

— Ernest Istook