Contrary Quote by Thomas Jefferson

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

— Hugo Black

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

— Edmund Burke

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and…

— Robert Barclay

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

— Mary Douglas

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

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation…

— Hassan Nasrallah

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is…

— John Howard

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

— Samuel Alito

Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get…

— Elton John

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

— Tom Robbins

No one should interfere in the religion of another.

— Mayawati