In a pluralistic society, you cannot say to people who worship another God, let’s say people who are Hindu, or let’s say people who are Buddhist, that you have to put our God above your God when you come into the courtroom, which is what the first of the Ten Commandments says [‘You shall have no other gods before me.’] I think that is religious oppression.
Quoted in: The Toledo Blade, August 2, 2003.
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