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

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

The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must stand for something, or they will be unable to generate enthusiastic support from the volunteers needed to burn shoe leather and calories winning competitive elections.

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.

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

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.

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

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.'

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

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

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.

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.

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.