If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter. — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.” — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection; true love… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
