Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the r…

- John M Swomley

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits bru…

- John M Swomley

Separation prevents the government from determining church policy, whether directly or indirectly.

- John M Swomley

By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches…

- John M Swomley

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the gove…

- John M Swomley

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept t…

- John M Swomley

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history …

- John M Swomley