“American-style despotism is possible only if it has a large and influential base, and that potential exists in the religious right’s active… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not.… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear somebody go, "I feel so religious right now!" I'm like, "Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?"… — James Callis Copy Share Image
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“[The Founding Fathers] were not advocates for a monolithic notion of "God and Country," as promoters of a Christian America would now… — Brooke Allen Copy Share Image
For all the venom and fear spewed at members of the 'religious right,' most of today's churches are left alone... the nonreligious… — Kay Coles James Copy Share Image
Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right… — Tony Campolo 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
“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
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
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
“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
“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian… — Tony Campolo 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
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
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
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
For decades, the liberal media eviscerated the Religious Right and other conservatives for their own attacks against liberal social causes. Over time,… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
“Those who oppose the religious right would have a much easier time if all of the movement's leaders expressed themselves as freely… — David Corn Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily… — David Spangler 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
“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
Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up… — Jessica Lange 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 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 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
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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