A good many people find it comfortable for now, and sufficient, to extol, and propose to enforce, the values of what they call the Judeo-Christian tradition. Theirs is not a long view. Recall again the Islam is the fastest growing religion. It may or may not come to predominate. We can be nearly certain, however, that the current state of affairs will not endure. Today’s Protestant minority in the United States may thank its ancestors who fashioned decent places for minorities when they were the majority. Today’s power structure should be preserving that tradition. It is the essence of the Bill of Rights.
Marvin E. Frankel (1920-2002) American lawyer, judge, legal scholar
Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America (1994)
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Frankel, Marvin E.
As was said at the outset of this chapter, the vice in being too sure for our purposes is the deposition to impose your beliefs and your forms of religious conduct on others. That attitude is the enemy of religious freedom. It is the remembered and hated form of oppression against which the First Amendment was drawn.
Marvin E. Frankel (1920-2002) American lawyer, judge, legal scholar
Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America (1994)