Rod Parsley Quotes

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

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

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

One religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another.

Japanese subjects shall, within limits not prejudicial to peace and order, and not antagonistic to their duties as subjects, enjoy freedom of religious belief. [Article 28, 1889 Constitution] Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor exercise any political authority. 2) No person shall be compelled to take part in any religious acts, celebration, rite or practice. 3) The State and its organs shall refrain from religious education or any other religious activity. [Article 20, 1946 Constitution]

Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if not the universal sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship.

Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.

From the Founding Era onward, there was strong consensus about the centrality of religious liberty in the United States.

We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

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?

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

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

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.