Church Quote by William Rehnquist Download Open image “The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.” — William Rehnquist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Church and state Freedom of religion History Metaphor Separation Separation between church and state Separation of church and state States Wall
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not...… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing. — Dan Severson Copy Share Image
I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination. — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where they have… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state. — H. J Eckenrode Copy Share Image
“The phrase ‘separation of church and state,’ which appears in no founding document (only in a letter written by Thomas Jefferson), means that America… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels. — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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