American Crusade Quotes

“It is on the path to make Christians a favored, privileged class and non-Christians second-class citizens.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Religious freedom does not mean burdening others with your religion; it means freely burdening yourself.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Soon before retiring from the Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said: “By enforcing the [Religion] Clauses, we have kept religion a matter for the individual conscience, not for the prosecutor or bureaucrat. At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government, Americans may count themselves fortunate: Our regard for constitutional boundaries has protected us from similar travails, while allowing private religious exercise to flourish. . . . Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”11”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“In internet slang, a “troll” is an attention seeker who traffics in inflammatory rhetoric to antagonize and sow chaos and discord.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“The decision elevates delicate Christian sensibilities over the civil rights of citizens. To offend Christianity, even in the slightest manner, is to be hostile to religion in a way that violates the Constitution.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“religion is not a license to violate other people’s rights, including rights established by civil rights laws.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“IN A CONVERSATION ABOUT KIM DAVIS, Salman Rushdie identified the “classic trope of the religious bigot . . . while they are denying people their rights, they claim their rights are being denied. While they are persecuting people, they claim to be persecuted.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“The Crusaders are cowards, lacking the courage of their loudly confessed religious convictions.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Frederick Douglass explained, “I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others. It was my unhappy lot not only to belong to a religious slaveholder, but to live in a community of such religionists.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Citing religious freedom as a defense, she pled guilty to lesser charges, and got probation.14 Weaponized religious freedom looks an awful lot like a coat hanger.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“the Roberts Court”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“When Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexual assault during his Supreme Court confirmation, he screamed at senators with undisguised loathing and uncontrolled anger.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“This is the court of Plessy v. Ferguson, of Dred Scott and fugitive slave laws, of trying to suffocate the New Deal in the cradle, of gutting the power of the 14th Amendment won with the blood of so many Americans during the Civil War, of Japanese internment camps, of Muslim bans, of billionaires and corporations and political gerrymandering and gutting voting rights.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“The simple fact is that this Supreme Court wants to decide these cases.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“This wasn’t a solution to the constitutional violation, but a way to perpetuate the violation.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Roberts advocates for deeply conservative change, but slowly.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas,”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Texas gave Murphy a choice: he could have either “a Christian prison chaplain or no chaplain present.”13 Die with the state’s preferred god or die alone.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“McConnell, Trump, and Leo cheated and stole and packed the courts to put their collaborators in place not because they would administer justice evenhandedly, but because they wouldn’t.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“The court altered this irrefutable fact:”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“they’re often manipulating the law and even the facts”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said: “By enforcing the [Religion] Clauses, we have kept religion a matter for the individual conscience, not for the prosecutor or bureaucrat. At a time when we see around the world the violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government, Americans may count themselves fortunate: Our regard for constitutional boundaries has protected us from similar travails, while allowing private religious exercise to flourish. . . . Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom

“If your god doesn’t like birth control, don’t take it. It your god thinks marrying a person of the same sex is sinful, don’t marry someone of the same sex. If your religion demands private religious education for your children, you and your church pay for it. Religious freedom does not mean burdening others with your religion; it means freely burdening yourself.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom