The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas. That is the philosophy of the First Amendment; and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world.

A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.