Quotes about Religious freedom

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.