Henry Hyde Quotes

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

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

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or Ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.

I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her faith and live according to his conscience.

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

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

There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

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

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.