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" When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes. "

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" When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. "

" Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. "

" It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. "

" I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. "

" Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? "

" If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. "

" But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government. "

" Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists. "

" I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. "

" The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. "

" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "

" As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it. "

" I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions. "

" I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. "

" To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. "

" What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party. "

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" Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. "

" In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion. "

" I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. "

" Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. "

" When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? "

" It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp. "

" But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States? "

" Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. "

" I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. "

" The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again. "

" Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian. "

" I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible. "

" A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues. "

" Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. "