In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump. — Vic Toews Copy Share Image
Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport. — Rick Scarborough Copy Share Image
I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail. — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
“One indictment of the religious right is not that it is heartless – a tautology in any case – but that is brainless.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“The religious right provides the foot soldiers for the GOP. This fact has profound implications for the rest of the Republicans’ ideological… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“The religious right are being decidedly unpatriotic in their quest to drive us back toward the Theocracy that our revolutionary soldiers spilled… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that… — Barry W. Lynn Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through… — St. Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it… — James Callis Copy Share Image
“The political dominance of the Religious Right over the past three decades in America has had a profoundly negative effect on how Americans… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“What if the energy and resources used to preserve and tweak the civil religion was rather spent feeding the hungry, housing the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“First, each side should accept that both religious belief and skepticism are on the rise. Atheist author Sam Harris and Religious Right… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is… — Rick Mayhew Copy Share Image
“The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. It expands the void, the mindlessness… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Materialism is, really, a system of belief or behavior which considers material things and in particular the control and possession of material… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“What is even more striking than the negational character of this political culture is the absence of robust and constructive affirmations. Vibrant… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. — Junius Copy Share Image
The Religious Right dislikes both abortions and homosexuality. But who has fewer abortions than gays? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute,… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
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