“Extremism is, or should be, a ‘character’ issue.”
“I’m sick and tired of minorities running our country!”
“I cannot represent you unless you get plastic surgery to make your eyes look bigger.”
“I like to call it speaking bigotry to power for the voiceless.”
“Somehow, the kinder and gentler and things-getting-better message seems not to have filtered down to the group of Catholic high school graduates who beat up two gay men in Philadelphia recently, or to the pastor of the parish in Lewistown, Montana, who recently informed two elderly gay men that they can’t receive communion any longer, or to Archbishop John Nienstedt as he just shoved a music minister in Victoria, Minnesota, out of his job.”
“That’s historically true but note that progressives are going to be the heroes in this narrative.”
“We seriously doubt that allowing committed same-sex couples to settle down in legally recognized marriages will drive opposite-sex couples to sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.”
“People often say that same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the ’60s. But in terms of public opinion, same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the ’90s, when it had already been legal nationwide for 30 years.”
“Purity culture Christians believe that sex outside of marriage gives women power, and that is one of the main reasons why they advocate for abstinence before marriage.”
“In George’s primitive understanding, marriage isn’t about love or raising children. It’s about copulation.”
“With Brownback’s government auctioning sex toys to try to keep its budget holes from gaping any wider, it might be tempting to charge the conservative Christian governor with hypocrisy.”
“These experiences uniquely qualify him to teach our students about every aspect of serving in public office.”
“Now, imagine the reaction of Fox News pundits and right-wing radio talk show hosts if it was Obama giving this speech.”
“The phrase ‘illegal immigrant’ did not exist in English (or was insanely rare) before the 1930s. Rather, people used the phrase ‘irregular immigrant’ for transitory labor.”
“Two decades after she succeeded in persuading Congress to pass Jacob’s Law, she’s now asking people to take a second look to see whether laws like the one named for her son are doing more harm than good and should be curbed.”
“People are putting their stories out there, and that is influencing people’s perception.”
“The Bible teaches that all men should be farmers. Farming is their calling, and they are biologically suited to it.”
“Talking about abortion is rare … but the actual experience isn’t.”
“Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth — approximately 343,000 women every year.”
“I don’t want to go down that low.”
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