Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

Nassau William Senior
- Government
- Purpose
- Worst
I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

Forrest Mars, Jr.
- Man
- Way
- Religious
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston
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- Society
- Religious
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.

Sam Harris
- People
- Believe
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

Gary Hamel
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

Frances Wright
- Action
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