Prayer In School Quotes

I'm for prayer in schools.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.