Ken Buck Quotes

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

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle with religion

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs.

[T]he sole function of the American state, in respect to religion, is to recognize its existence and protect its liberty.

Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.

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

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.

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 United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

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

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.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.