Dominic Grieve Quotes

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken Him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

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

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

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.

I don’t see a bit of danger from us having an established religion.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Congress shall not make any law infringing the rights of conscience, or establishing any religious sect or society Congress shall make no law establishing one religious sect or society in preference to others. Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination of religion in preference to another

Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform

Religious freedom must include the right to influence public policy within the bounds of liberal norms.

Government has no more right to help us Christians flaunt our beliefs than it has to suppress any faith.

Religion cannot be the agenda of any government.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

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.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

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

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

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.