11 Quotes by Ken Falk

What we're dealing with here is discrimination of an American citizen.

Legislators of all people should understand that we have three branches of government, and the ultimate function of the judiciary is to determine cases under the constitution.

People will look at it and not see some kind of secular document they will see a holy document and holy documents should not be on public property.

I would think at this point that everyone in the legislature would want to stand up and say that we abide by the notion that courts decide questions of constitutional law. And I note from the resolution that they are not in any way arguing that they should disobey the court. But I think at this point we need to sit back and let the courts decide the case.

We won't know what will happen until we get there to argue the case.

Well the ten commandments is not the law of the land obviously if one covets they are not committing a crime under Indiana law.

The thing to remember here and what's sort of been lost is that prayer in the legislature has not been prohibited by the court. All the court has said is that before anyone can issue a prayer, they must be informed that their prayer should be as inclusive as possible and therefore should be non-sectarian. That's all the court's order holds.

This is not in the law; the law itself is solid. This is a policy of the state student commission.

The last thing I would think a legislator would want to do would be to let the general public feel that somehow if we don't like what courts do or we don't like the way courts interpret the Constitution, we can overrule it by acting like a 3-year-old and taking our marbles and going somewhere else.