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Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.

The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.