Gene Robinson Quotes

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

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.

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.

Religion must be disciplined by democracy.

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

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

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

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.

Whether we like it or not, religion and government policy are unavoidably linked.

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to practice faith or not, and those who believe are free and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

We early freed ourselves from the incubus of a State Church.

This is a Christian nation.

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

In this country there is no alliance between church and state, no established religion, no tolerated religion—for toleration results from establishment

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support, the greater it curtails human freedom.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

All true democratic movements have been branded anti-religious.

To say that religion cannot stand without a state establishment is not only contrary to fact (as has been proved already) but is a contradiction in phrase.

We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power.