Ralph E. Reed Jr. Quotes

#1. The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

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#2. Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

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#3. In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.

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#4. Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

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#5. Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

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#6. You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

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#7. Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

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#8. The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

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#9. Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

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#10. What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

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#11. Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

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#12. We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

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#13. People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust ... '

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#14. Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

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#15. What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

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#16. An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

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#17. Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

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#18. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

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#19. Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse ... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

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#20. I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians ... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

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#21. Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

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