NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman voices her opinion about Mayor Eric Adams' statements about prayer in schools.
during an interfaith breakfast Tuesday criticizing the nation’s constitutionally mandated separation of church and state were playing with fire.
Let’s be clear: Religion is a fundamental part of millions of New Yorkers’ lives and faith has played a crucial role in many of our nation’s achievements, including the Civil Rights Movement. That’s why freedom of religion is so important. It isn’t like Adams should need to be reminded of what the First Amendment requires. He has sworn to uphold the Constitution more than once, first as a police officer, later as a state senator, and then last year upon becoming mayor. The very opening passage of the Bill of Rights makes clear that in matters of religion, the government must remain a neutral non-participant.
In addition to our recent past, there is, of course, a much longer story to tell, stretching back to colonial New York, in which Catholics were denied religious and civil rights. And so on.
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