Former Justice Antonin Scalia
On the Establishment Clause:
"The Founding Fathers would be astonished to find that the Establishment Clause — which they designed to ensure that no one powerful sect or combination of sects could use political or governmental power to punish dissenters — has been employed to prohibit the characteristically and admirably American accommodation of the religious practices (or more precisely, cultural peculiarities) of a tiny minority sect. I, however, am not surprised. Once this court has abandoned text and history as guides, nothing prevents it from calling religious toleration the establishment of religion." — Board of Ed. of Kiryas Joel v. Grumet (1994)
On religious (and nonreligious) neutrality:
"To tell you the truth, there is no place for that [religious neutrality] in our constitutional tradition. To be sure, you can't favor one denomination over another, but you can't favor religion over nonreligion? . . . I think one of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor. Unlike the other countries of the world that do no even invoke his name, we do him honor." — speaking to students at a Louisiana Catholic high school (Jan. 2, 2016)