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Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).
State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
The separation of church and state is a suburban, not an urban, issue.
Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right.
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state.
The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.
Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.
I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.
When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
Separation of Church and state was a radical idea when the U.S. was first founded, but it's become The Way Things Are.
You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away.
For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.
There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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.
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.
Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church.
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
One area where American Jews have something to teach Israel is religious pluralism, something that living in a democracy with a separation between church and state has helped us fine-tune.
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.
I'm Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I'm also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman's right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
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.
To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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.