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I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.