The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics.
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.