The liberty that I claim, I grant. “Secularists and unbelievers will demand their rights. I concede their rights. I will not impose upon them my religion, which is Christianity. But let them not impose upon me and my fellow-Christians their religion, which is secularism. Secularism is a religion of its kind, and usually a very loud-spoken and intolerant religion. Non-sectarianism is not secularism, and, when non-sectarianism is intended, the secularist sect must not claim for itself the field which it refuses to others. I am taking my stand upon our common American citizenship. The liberty that I claim, I grant.” ~ Archbishop John Ireland, “State Schools and Parish Schools,” Address before the National Education Association of the United States, 1890. Library of Congress Photo darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=1133
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