“Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake give me a drink.”
“I can use the word ‘vagina’ when the context involves rape, but I cannot use the word ‘vagina’ when the context involves a certain degree of ownership and power over my own body.”
“I dream of the church being a place that destroys cages instead of constructing them.”
“‘The men of the right’ have found, in every generation, a substantial number of Christian women who considered the limited roles and secondary status allotted to them to be quite comfortable.”
“There is no mistaking the bond that Mr. Santorum has with conservative women — particularly married women — a group that has formed a core of his support since the primaries began in January.”
“We asked them simple questions like who they were, what they were doing, and what they hoped to accomplish by giving out hugs on the streets of Costa Rica.”
“The failure … to muster any serious climate policy is inevitably described by mainstream reporters as ‘a blow to environmentalists,’ as though it’s some boutique policy meant to benefit a special interest group. If reporters took climate change seriously, they would say, ‘the failure to secure serious climate policy makes widespread suffering and destabilization in the latter half of this century far more likely.'”
“Obamacare means never having to worry about getting sick and running up against a lifetime cap on insurance coverage.”
“In every other advanced country, the provision of universal access to medical care is a public responsibility. In every other advanced country, this principle has been accepted by the mainstream conservative party.”
“In the case of Trayvon Martin, the white religious community – including those affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, this area’s dominant affiliation – has so far been silent and invisible.”
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