Roxane Gay Quotes

It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

Government has no more right to help us Christians flaunt our beliefs than it has to suppress any faith.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

The 1st Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we had nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his Maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude.

We stand for a free church in a free state. Neither one should control the affairs of the other. We support the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, with its "establishment" and "free exercise" clauses.

What is crucial is that a government practice not have the effect of communicating a message of governmental endorsement or disapproval of religion.

The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.

While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion.