I Hope For An America Where Neither

The Real Transgression Occurs When Religion Wants Government To Tell Citizens How To Live Uniquely Personal Parts Of Their Lives. The Failure Of Prohibition Proves The Futility Of Such An Attempt When A Majority Or Even A Substantial Minority Happens To Disagree. Some Questions May Be Inherently Individual Ones, Or People May Be Sharply Divided About Whether They Are. In Such Cases, Like Prohibition And Abortion, The Proper Role Of Religion Is To Appeal To The Conscience Of The Individual, Not The Coercive Power Of The State.

People Of Faith Should Not Invoke The Power Of The State To Decide What Everyone Can Believe Or Think Or Read Or Do. In Such Cases, Like Abortion Or Prayer Or Prohibition Or Sexual Identity, The Proper Role Of Religion Is To Appeal To The Free Conscience Of Each Person, Not The Coercive Rule Of Secular Law.

Separation Of Church And State Cannot Mean An Absolute Separation Between Moral Principles And Political Power.

Don't Sacrifice Your Political Convictions For The Convenience Of The Hour.

My Brother Need Not Be Idealized, Or Enlarged In Death Beyond What He Was In Life; To Be Remembered Simply As A Good And Decent Man, Who Saw Wrong And Tried To Right It, Saw Suffering And Tried To Heal It, Saw War And Tried To Stop It.