In Their Own Words

I’ve spent a lot of my life around hookers. [Asserting, after brief pause, that faith-based initiatives can address core issues leading to prostitution.]

Ex-White House faith czar Jim Towey
Duke Chronicle, Feb. 28, 2007


He is completely heterosexual.

Rev. Tim Ralph on Ted Haggard’s cure”
Denver Post, Feb. 6, 2007


[The theories of Charles Darwin are] the true source of terrorism.

Turkish book sent to French schools
Agence-France Presse, Feb. 2, 2007


Indisputable evidence–long hidden but now available to everyone–demonstrates conclusively that so-called “secular science” is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternative “creation scenario” of the Pharisee Religion.

Ga. State Rep. Ben Bridges
Memo on “evolution monopoly”

Dallas Morning News, Feb. 14, 2007


“The Only Way to Destroy the Jewish Race.”

Ad promoting sermon
First Baptist Church
South Portland, Maine

Portland Press Herald, Feb. 3, 2007


Given the consequences of the Fall and the effects of human sin, we should not be surprised that such a causation or link is found [for homosexuality]. The discovery of a biological factor would not change the Bible’s moral verdict on homosexual behavior.

If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable effects of sin.

The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr.
President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Is Your Baby Gay?”

March 2, 2007 blog


I am going to kill you and your family.

Pat Robertson
as alleged by Phillip Busch who is suing Robertson

The Virginian-Pilot, Feb. 9, 2007


[The fundamental values of] respect for human life, its defense from conception to natural death, the family built on marriage between a man and a woman, the freedom to educate one’s children and the promotion of the common good in all its forms . . . are not negotiable.

Consequently, Catholic politicians and legislators, conscious of their grave responsibility before society, must feel particularly bound, on the basis of a properly formed conscience, to introduce laws inspired by values grounded in human nature.

Pope Benedict XVI
Apostolic Exhortation

March 13, 2007


Catholic politicians must act upon the truth of the inherent dignity of the human person to be faithful Catholics. We cannot leave God at the door when we walk into the legislature.

Fargo Bishop Samuel J. Aquila
Reprinted homily

Diocesan newspaper, Feb. 15, 2007


There has never been any proof offered that Darwin’s theory of evolution is correct.

Ten. Sen. Raymond Finney
Sponsor of Sen. Res. 17, to “answer” whether the universe was created by a “Supreme Being”
Knoxville News, Feb. 27, 2007

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