“The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.”

“The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.”

“Rights come from God, not from government.”

“If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.”

“And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.”

“If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.”

“But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.”

“It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.”

“Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.”

“The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.”

“The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.”

“The Constitution was about a limitation on power.”