“The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobb”
Peter B. Medawar
“A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation”
Albert Einstein
“It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.”
Bill Clinton
“Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave”
Thomas J. Jackson
“It's a response to religious oppression, ... folks who have gone through conversion therapy (in) Christian schools where they were being converted from homosexuality back to heterosexual. Of course it didn't work for any of them, and now they're trying to balance their homosexuality and Christianity, trying to be happy with both.”
Joseph Cook
“The act would slam shut the federal courthouse doors to religious minority parents, school children and others who seek nothing more than to have their religious and free speech claims heard before the courts most uniquely suited to entertain such claims.”
Marty Durand
“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.”
Adolf Hitler