Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind legal social religious economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me... as a legal ceremonial sentimental and religious side it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps like not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However most of us don't want to call it marriage because we think that word has religious connotations and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

From you we have learned what we at least value to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning to religious liberty and to individual and National freedom.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day to have hoped much from officers of a church.

And the whole world the whole world that believes in freedom whether you're talking about personal freedom economic freedom religious freedom they look to the United States for leadership and you're part of that leadership.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Religious speech is extreme emotional and motivational. It is anti-literal relying on metaphor allusion and other rhetorical devices and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national regional religious ethnic occupational and family folklore traditions.