David Barton Quotes

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every and all respects there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rathe, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

The 1947 Court (Everson v. Board of Education) for the first time had used only Jefferson's metaphor - completely divorced from its context and intent.

Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

In 1962 (Engel v. Vitale), the Supreme Court explained that the word 'church' would no longer mean a federally established denomination; it would now mean a religious activity in public.

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.

Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.

On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.

When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

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

There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.