This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.
Stephen L. CarterThere is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
Stephen L. CarterLots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
Stephen L. CarterWe do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.
Stephen L. Carter