Bill of rights Quote by Josh Hawley

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

— Josh Hawley

Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and…

— F. LaGard Smith

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

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it…

— John Lennox

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from…

— Linda Chavez

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly,…

— Stephen V Monsma

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Lamar S. Smith

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

— Michael Newdow

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

— Rand Paul

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they…

— Ronald Reagan

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

— David Platt