It will foster religious intolerance and misunderstanding, and what we need in this country - and what we badly need throughout the world - is better religious understanding and tolerance.

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do…

What you have is a lusty and thriving religious intolerance that is objectively manifesting itself in prejudice and discrimination.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country

And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and

reflect on the culture of intolerance that he may be promoting in his party and the country as a whole.