that Tennessee legislators are trivializing the Bible and run the risk of alienating people who don't identify with a particular religion … concluded that the legislation violates the Establishment clause of the Constitution, for it would appear to be endorsing a particular religion…
Permitting such a change and the associated expenditure of public funds places the county’s power, prestige, and purse behind a single religion … This is not the government endorsing one religion over another. … It's historical accuracy, not saying one religion is better than another.…
That’s including nearly half of those in the conservative wing of the GOP, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. … conservative members — support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Public Religion…
They think that America can survive the death of God and religion, that fiscal and other forms of conservatism without social conservatism … Because they already have a religion and therefore don't need the alternate gods of leftist faiths, and also because Judeo-Christian … Adams warned: "Because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…
We have freedom in the West because wise leaders of time past recognized that humanity is best off when religion is not forced on anyone … This gave freedom to all in that state, regardless of religion. … Jefferson argues that it violates the principles of Jesus (“the holy author of our religion”) to force anyone as to how they believe…
the world, religious Jews, Christians and Muslims say they believe in God, as do many people who do not identify with any formal religion … people who have an anti-religious agenda: They say that all religious people believe in the same God in order to discredit God and religion…
liberties are guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion … The “free exercise” of any religion would require abiding by the moral doctrines of one’s chosen faith. … Thankfully, Christians are winning many “freedom of religion” battles in our court system.…
Several weeks ago, the High Court in Kuching, Sarawak state in Malaysia ruled that the human right of freedom of religion, as protected … He is free to exercise his right of freedom to religion, and he chose Christianity.” … With this end in mind, Family Research Council and partnering organizations Open Doors, The Voice of the Martyrs, Institute of Religion…
Political liberals who otherwise eschew any connection between religion and politics are particularly fond of quoting Christ’s admonition … to the deep need of too many politicians to be loved by all the right people -- the ones who despise political invocations of religion…
A federal judge in Nebraska has ruled that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a real religion. … The Court finds that FSMism is not a "religion" within the meaning of the relevant federal statutes and constitutional jurisprudence … It is, rather, a parody, intended to advance an argument about science, the evolution of life, and the place of religion in public…
Even on matters of religion, Jefferson was revolutionary. He once said, "Say nothing of my religion. … Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated … His religion was strictly his own private affair, and he asked the same be said for anyone else's religion. …
