“All of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened as well as the specifics of the incident.”

“Every single American of every background is endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights: the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We should be concerned about any young American of any background who ends up getting killed [as Trayvon Martin was].”

“It should bother the president. Why does the president behave the way that people would think that [he is a Muslim]? You have to ask, why would they believe that? It’s not because they’re stupid. It’s because they watch the kind of things I just described to you. When you have every bishop in the Catholic Church say this administration’s at war with their religion, you don’t think that has an impact?”

Follow On Faith Saturday for live Tweets from the Reason Rally on the National Mall, billed by organizers as the largest gathering of the secular movement in history.

“We want people to come out of the closet and show people we can be good without God,” Herb Silverman, president of the Secular Coalition, told the Post’s Michelle Boorstein. Richard Dawkins, Adam Savage (co-host of “Mythbusters”) Penn Jillette and Rep. Pete Stark are among those expected to speak or appear via video presentation.

Follow tweets from the Post at Reason Rally below.

“You know, that is such total baloney. I was asked by a reporter immediately afterwards. I said of course I accept that he’s a Christian. The guy didn’t ask me a question. The guy got up and stated his opinion. I don’t have an obligation to go around and correct every single voter about every single topic. I also didn’t agree with him.”

Newt Gingrich, responding to criticism for not correcting a voter’s opinion that Obama is a Muslim.

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