Bible reading Quote by Rafael Cruz

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators,…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

“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

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts…

— Rod Parsley

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

— Rush Limbaugh

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 Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to…

— Pat Robertson

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism…

— John Henrik Clarke

Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values…

— Bruce L. Shelley

Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal…

— Molly Ivins

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of…

— William Murchison

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more…

— Jon Meacham

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had…

— John Taylor Gatto