I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.
Edward KennedyShamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
Edward KennedyPeople 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.
Edward KennedyThe work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
Edward Kennedy