“Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.” WantStatesAbleChoicesChurchAcceptingPracticeSupportSeparationChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And State Author:Pauley Perrette
“People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.” PeopleChoicesChurchPressureCatholicStrikesEmpiresPaganRoman EmpireFreedom Of Choice Author:Andrew Greeley
“Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.” ChoicesFatherChurchPracticeElementsMarriedCarefulVariousPriestsLatinOfferingEasternPriesthoodEvaluationCelibacy Author:Angelo Scola
“In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.” WellsChildrenStillsSelfStatesBodyRealityPoliticalChoicesChurchUnitedClassUnited StatesMiddleIgnoranceDeterminationCatholicMalesIncludingProfessionMedicalLifestyleAlternativesAbortionDependentMiddle ClassSelf DeterminationDisguiseCatholic ChurchLegislatorsPhysicalityPharmaceuticalVeneerJurists Author:Adrienne Rich
“What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.” HumansArtImportantStatesHandsChristianSpiritualReligionChoicesChurchDangerousWallNeededArt IsJewBe GoodSeparationBuddhistHuman ExperienceChurch And StateGood ChristianSeparation Between Church And State Author:Barbra Streisand
“I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.” WantNeedsBelievePoliticalChoicesChurchPoorImportanceClaimsStressPrioritiesTreatmentFamily LifeDealingsReally Living Author:Charles J. Chaput
“The church of my choice is the free, open world.” WorldChoicesChurch Book:Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.” IfsHeartChoicesEvilWaitingChurchLordClearWelcomeWillingnessWaiting For YouOpen Your HeartWillingness To Serve Author:Pope Francis
“As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingKindTwoLawChoicesChurchDecisionViewsJudgingBabyBehaviorAdultsCatholicDrivenPunishmentCapital PunishmentPersonal Views Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“In a Christian Theocracy, you'll never be Christian enough. There's always going to be somebody there with another version of Christianity that is more Christian than you and you're going to lose the freedom to make the choice because you didn't defend the Separation of Church and State when you had the chance.” StatesEnoughChristianChoicesLosesChurchChanceChristianitySeparationVersionsChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateTheocracy Author:David Silverman