[Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are putting together Justice Sunday seem to be far more interested in power than in justice, ... They now control the White House and the Congress. This is an effort to guarantee they will control the courts as well. |
Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs. |
As it stands, you are sending the signal that the other groups are second-class citizens. It makes more sense to have a comparative religion course that acknowledges the diversity of faith. |
For the purpose of the state and the church, and the principle of separating the two with a decent distance, this is a very bad idea. |
He has been a faithful soldier in the far right's campaign to roll back the church-state safeguards protecting all Americans, especially religious minorities. |
I am very concerned that we keep a distinction between public schools and Sunday schools. And I'm not sure that all lay teachers are going to be able to teach objectively about what is any people's sacred text and scripture. |
I don't think the Constitution prohibits the use of this textbook, but I have real doubts about the wisdom of this approach. At this time in America, it's better to simply talk about religious influences when they come up during the study of literature, art, and history, and not take the text of one religious tradition and treat it with special deference. |
I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one. |
I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of churches and religion for partisan purposes in states like Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Pennsylvania. |
If it's a religious building, in general, the courts have not allowed the use of tax dollars to build it or renovate it, ... and a natural disaster does not destroy basic constitutional principles. |
If your representative in Congress can't explain a vote on abortion or the environment without 'proof-texting' it to the Bible, he or she has failed to do the work of a legislator in America. |
In a sense we have to presume that he somehow vets people for their religion. |
In one person, Herbert Lusk represents what is wrong with mixing religion and government. |
It shows he's evolving into a crankier fringe character than we expected, ... God has better things to do than worry about the outcome of a school board election. |
It shows he's evolving into a crankier fringe character than we expected. God has better things to do than worry about the outcome of a school board election. |