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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

It is intolerable that in our country citizens should feel so upset and under assault because of their religious choice that they would conclude that they have to hide.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

Spiritual matters should be private.

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.