Michael Newdow Quotes

I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

Since the association of seasonal activities with religious activities in the public schools tends to pervert their religious significance, such association be discouraged as foreign to the purpose of the public schools.

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

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.

What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Parochial schools are a menace, and the Bible in schools is an insult.

If religious freedom is to endure in America, the responsibility for teaching religion to public school children must be left to the homes and churches of our land, where this responsibility rightfully belongs. It must not be assumed by the government through the agency of the public school system.

Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, and not antagonistic to their duties as subjects, enjoy freedom of religious belief. [Article 28, 1889 Constitution] Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor exercise any political authority. 2) No person shall be compelled to take part in any religious acts, celebration, rite or practice. 3) The State and its organs shall refrain from religious education or any other religious activity. [Article 20, 1946 Constitution]

Government may not assist in the fight to keep Christ in Christmas.

Religious observances should never be held in a public school or introduced into the public school as part of its program.

If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

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

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

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

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

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.

As a matter of history, schoolchildren can and should properly be informed of all aspects of this Nation's religious heritage. I would see no constitutional problem if schoolchildren were taught the nature of the Founding Father's religious beliefs and how these beliefs affected the attitudes of the times and the structure of our government

In a pluralistic society, public schools are places for persons of all faiths and none. Schools may neither promote nor denigrate any religion.