When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.