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“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”

 

Thomas Jefferson

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“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

A most excellent quote, though properly attributed to librarian and Jefferson enthusiast Eyler Coates, who wrote those words in introducing the following quote from Mr. Jefferson himself:

 

"We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries."

 

Thomas Jefferson, Reply to Virginia Baptists, 1808

 

Reading the two side by side, it's pretty obvious which one was written in the 19th century.

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"Forget about creating a generation of paranoid 4-10 year olds by teaching stranger danger and stop a generation of unplanned children by teaching 13-16 year olds about birth control." Local Planned Parenthood Rep
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