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When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.


Arlen Specter

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DANA TOFIG It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.
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MICHAEL REAGAN Maybe it's unfair but it's a separation of church and state issue.
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AYN RAND ...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovere...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partn...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a...
HARRY TRUMAN The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...
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WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS must maintain strict protection for civil rights and a clear separation of church and state.
BILL BRADLEY Getting the 60 signatures is ongoing. Max and (Sen. Arlen) Specter (R-Pa.) are continuing to push it...
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J. I. PACKER As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian rel...
JOHN ADAMS In turning now to the principle of dialogue underlying the Constitution's structure, it is important...
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KARL MARX What's ... important about this case is that it validates the separation of church and state. Even m...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to sep...
ADAM COHEN Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
RALPH G. NEAS Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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FATHER MARK MONTEBELLO The findings suggest that American public opinion is starkly divided when it comes to the role of re...
ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institu...
GEORGE CARLIN It's not like throwing a bone to the far right, it's like throwing a carcass, ... He's voted for sch...
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SOURCE UNKNOWN The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...
JAMES MADISON Furthermore, the managerial ethos of parliamentary reformism is in direct tension with important val...
THOMAS O. SARGENTICH The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some re...
ROSIE O'DONNELL I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institution...
GEORGE CARLIN I'm ready to go back to Eden, where there was only God and His Creation. No church, no religion, no ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This ...
CARL SAGAN How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whe...
RICHARD LAND Our government is based upon a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. The actions...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON We would hope that good Christian leaders would distance themselves from Pat Robertson's remarks. It...
ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its ...
WILLIAM COWPER He certainly has been willing to push a bit against some things that come from the president. But wh...
ELLIOT MINCBERG News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried t...
LESLIE MOONVES Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.
BERNARDO ALVAREZ It doesn't matter if they label it philosophy, science or home ec. For this to be endorsed as scient...
GLENN BRANCH Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that t...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic,...
VINCENT BOURNE I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institution...
GEORGE CARLIN You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Terry McAuliffe is flat wrong and slanderous when he says the president was AWOL,
ED GILLESPIE For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends ar...
SIMONE WEIL Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person...
ALCEE HASTINGS I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that...
BILLY SUNDAY Representative government, the supremacy of parliament, the independence of the judiciary, separatio...
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. S...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
VLADIMIR LENIN My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he of...
JOHN BURNSIDE A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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