Ginny Brown-Waite Quotes

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

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

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.

Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

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 Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

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

Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness, the answer on both points must be in the negative.

Today, the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

The First Amendment forbids the setting up of recognition of a state church of special favors and advantages which are denied to others

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.

In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.

Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest.

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

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

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.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.