Religious Liberty: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on Examining the Status of Religious Liberty in the United States and Whether There is a Need for Further Legal Protection, September 12 and October 20 and 25, 1995, Volumen4

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Página 122 - Regents' prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State. We agree with that contention since we think that the constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for. any group of the American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried on by government.
Página 167 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical...
Página 147 - When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.
Página 81 - We guarantee the freedom to worship as one chooses. We make room for as wide a variety of beliefs and creeds as the spiritual needs of man deem necessary. We sponsor an attitude on the part of government that shows no partiality to any one group and that lets each flourish according to the zeal of its adherents and the appeal of its dogma.
Página 92 - And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
Página 70 - Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. No person shall be required by the United States or by any State to participate in prayer.
Página 93 - God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Página 78 - RnBftntfflnftr v- Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. I have represented religious students at both the high school and the college level whose free speech rights have been infringed on the basis of their religious orientation. I have written amicus curiae briefs for organizations across the religious and jurisprudent ial spectrum, from the National Association of Evangelicals to People for the American Way.
Página 194 - Government; (4) that it furthers the general welfare to encourage noncommercial educational radio and television broadcast programming which will be responsive to the interests of people both in particular localities and throughout the United States, and which will constitute an expression of diversity and excellence...
Página 194 - Congressional Declaration of Policy "Sec. 396. (a) The Congress hereby finds and declares— "(1) that it is in the public interest to encourage the growth and development of noncommercial educational radio and television broadcasting, including the use of such media for instructional purposes...

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