Religious Right Quotes ( read em and weep..)

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Quotes specifically regarding George W. Bush's "faith-based" initiatives
"I haven't run into a pagan faith-based group yet, much less a pagan group that cares for the poor! Once you make it clear to any applicant that public money must go to public purposes and can't be used to promote ideology, the fringe groups lose interest. Helping the poor is tough work and only those with loving hearts seem drawn to it." --James Towey, during a Nov. 26 online "Ask the White House" question-and-answer session

"I know there are some people that are worried about the faith-based initiative that the president supports. And most of the distress is about that, 'We don't want the federal government coming into our business.' Well, my answer to that is, don't accept the money. But I see it as a great opportunity to bring God back into the public institutions of the country. God has been removed from all of our public institutions." ... "[The initiatives are a way of] standing up and rebuking this notion of separation of church and state that has been imposed upon us over the last 40 or 50 years. You see, I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. We have the right and the freedom to exercise our religion no matter what it is anywhere we choose to do it. We have an opportunity to once again get back into the public arena." ... "[Social programs have failed because we don't realize] that man is sinful and the redemption of man is through Jesus Christ or if you're Jewish through practicing your religion."
--House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas). July 10, appearing at an invitation-only luncheon gathering for congressional staff organized by TV preacher D. James Kennedy's Center for Christian Statesmanship.

"I think the Moslem faith teaches hate. I think there's clear evidence that the Islam [sic] religion, wherever it has majority control--and I can name a dozen countries--doesn't even allow people of other faiths to express themselves or evangelize or to exist in their presence....I think that when persons are clearly bigoted towards other persons in the human family, they should be disqualified from funds. For that reason, Islam should be out the door before they knock." --Rev. Jerry Falwell

"For me, I don't think that Wiccans would meet the standard of kind of being humane providers of domestic violence shelters."
--Stephen Goldsmith, Bush adviser

"I really don't know what to do. But this thing could be a real Pandora's box. And what seems to be such a great initiative can rise up to bite the organizations as well as the federal government. And I'm a little concerned about it, frankly. I mean the Moonies have been proscribed, if I can use that, for brainwashing techniques, sleep deprivation and all the rest of it that goes along with their unusual proselytizing. The Hare Krishnas much the same thing. And it seems appalling to me that we're going to go for somebody like that, or the Church of Scientology, which was involved in an incredible campaign against the IRS. I mean, they were accused of all kinds of underhanded activities."
--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," Feb. 20, 2001

"And the second problem - and it's a serious problem - is that people of every aberrant group known to man can apply to the federal trough....And I think the vast majority of American people find this intolerable."
--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," March 5, 2001

"This is about the poor. When you hear this is about separation of church and state, this is a lie. The question you should be asking is, do the programs work and are they turning people's lives around."
--Jim Towey, director of the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, October 28, 2002

Statements made by attendees of the House and Senate Republican Conferences "Faith-Based Summit" held April 25, 2001
(Of 32 committee members, only 2 were women, only 2 were Jewish, and no other minority faith was represented)

"We are going to remove the mythical separation of church and state." --Bishop Carlton Pearson

"There's never been a separation of church and state. The only thing that's been separated is us from the money." -- Bishop Marva Mitchell of Dayton, OH

"The separation of church and state is a fiction. The nation is the kingdom of God, period." --Bishop Harold Calvin Ray of West Palm Beach, FL in a February 2001 interview in Charisma magazine

Christians First/Only & Bashing Other Religions

Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Flag (as recited at Summit Ministries):
"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe."

"We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
--Ann Coulter, writing about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

“Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, the last one of which was a 9-year-old girl. And I will tell you Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah’s not going to turn you into a terrorist that’ll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people."
--Rev. Jerry Vines, former President of the Southern Baptist Convention, speaking at the June 2002 SBC convention
"I think Mohammed was a terrorist. He - I read enough of the history of his life written by both Muslims and – and - non-Muslims, that he was a - a violent man, a man of war. And I do believe that - Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses. And I think that Mohammed set an opposite example."
--Jerry Falwell, 60 Minutes, October 6, 2002

"I have never said in a sermon or a speech that Muhammad is a terrorist."
--Jerry Falwell, interview with Religion News Service

"All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for values, the kind of values that I think are associated with the Christian communities, and so that this child can be brought up in an environment that teaches them to have a strong faith and to understand that there is a force greater than them personally."
"In a religious environment the value system is pretty well set and supported. In public schools there are so many different kids from different kinds of experiences that it's very hard to get consensus around some core values."
"The reason that Christian schools and Christian universities are growing is a result of a strong value system. In a religious environment the value system is set. That's not the case in a public school where there are so many different kids with different kinds of values."
"Absolutely, I think that religious values are wonderful values that we should embrace in our daily lives wherever we are...." [Response to whether religious values should be taught in public schools]
"I would off them my prayers." [Response to those who don't like the Bush administration's overt religiosity]
- U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige, Baptist Press

"[The wall of separation] has caused oppression and aids the spread of crime, violence, immorality and false ideology, enslaving our society....The wall is constructed of lies, false interpretation of laws and enforcement of laws contradictory to the intent of the Constitution."
"When the Berlin Wall finally came down, thousands crossed the border to freedom and the opportunity for a prosperous life. So, too, as the mythical wall of separation is removed, thousands will be able to learn of America's true Christian heritage and the principles and morals that this heritage has bestowed."
--Sam Silligato, 1998 Salvation army publication The War Cry

"Ladies and gentlemen, Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of 'Where did I come from?' 'Why am I here?' 'Where am I going?' 'Does life have any meaningful purpose?' " DeLay said. "Only Christianity offers a way to understand that physical and moral border. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world -- only Christianity."
--House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) at the First Baptist Church of Pearland, TX., on April 12, 2002

"This gives me a chance to get the truth out, uncut. This country runs and operates on the Judeo-Christian ethic that comes from the Bible."
--Rep. Randy Ball (R-Titusville) in remarks about the Florida ban on adoption by homosexuals For more on this, click here

"We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void".
--Cal Thomas, Washington Times, October 23, 1996

"I speak for Jesus when I say, 'Fuck You and the donkey you rode in on!'"
--Brice Wellington

"Obviously, I would tell our nation, 'Prepare to meet thy God.' America must return to God. We must return to America's obligation to the Creator, the One we originally recognized in the Declaration of Independence. We must recognize God's providential care of this nation and His blessing on our people."
--Jerry Falwell on "Old Time Gospel Hour," June 1, 1997

"Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the founders had in mind in the First Amendment of the Constitution... [W]e must fight against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours."
--Jerry Falwell, March 1993 sermon

"We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context."
--Paul Weyrich, founder and president of the Free Congress Foundation

"What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time... I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians..."
--Religious News Service, 5/1/1990

"Most American children do not know that this is a Christian nation... [O]ur Constitution won't work in Russia, won't work in Haiti, won't work in Iraq. It only works where the people believe in the Christ of the Bible. The United States of America."
--Jerry Falwell on "Sunday Live with Jerry Falwell," July 23, 1995

"(W)hile it is true that the United States of America was founded on the sacred principle of religious freedom for all, that liberty was never intended to exalt other religions to the level that Christianity holds in our country's heritage. Our Founders expected that Christianity -- and no other religion -- would receive support from the government as long as that support did not violate peoples' consciences and their right to worship. They would have found utterly incredible the idea that all religions, including paganism, be treated with equal deference. As for our Hindu priest friend, the United States is a nation that has historically honored the one true God. Woe be to us on that day when we relegate him to being merely one among countless other deities in the pantheon of theologies."
--Family Research Council, Culture Facts newsletter 9/21/2000, commenting on a Hindu priest giving the opening prayer in the House of Representatives

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, (Ft. Wayne, IN.), 8/16/93

"We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."
--Jay Grimstead, February 1987

"Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."
--Rev. Joseph Morecraft, Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, "Biblical Role of Civil Government" speech given 8/31/93 at Biblical Worldview and Christian Education Conference

"The Christian glories in the death of a pagan because thereby Christ himself is glorified."
--Saint Bernard, Richard the Lionheart (J. Gillingham; 1989), quoted from Encarta Book of Quotations

"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
--John Ashcroft, Commencement address given on May 8, 1999 at Bob Jones University

"If you don't want a Christian nation, then go to one of the many nations that are heathen already, rather than perverting ours." "You're welcome to come, but leave your religions, your bibles, all your other things back where you came from." "Islam and America are opposites. They hate us. They want to kill us. I'm not anti-Jewish or anti-Catholic. I'm anti-Islam because that religion right there is anti-American."
--Jeff Fugate, pastor of Clays Mill Road Baptist Church, Lexington, KY, 7/03/2002
Fugate said he has heard from dozens of people who approved of the rally and his message. He also criticized liberals, homosexuals, cross-dressers, Hollywood stars, rock musicians and the U.S. Supreme Court.

"I am sure that only a Christian-controlled country is going to be able to stand up to the impending threat and avert the approaching disaster that our nation is facing."
--Rev. D. James Kennedy, president of the Center for Reclaiming America

"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."
--Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989), p. 102

"Hey - get with the program! CHRISTIANS are INDIVIDUALS!! NON-CHRISTIANS are a BIG BLURRY MESS!!!"
--Melinda Shore

"[W]e need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture."
--Keith A. Fournier, ACLJ brochure "Religious Cleansing"

"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew."
--Bailey Smith, a founding father of Robertson's Christian Coalition, once told 15,000 people at a Religious Roundtable briefing in Dallas, June 26, 1994

"The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior."
--Jerry Falwell, Listen, America!

"If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, he has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish."
--Jerry Falwell commenting on the anti-Christ, January 1999

"I’ve been talking to you about the clash between Israel and the Palestinians which is a clash between President Sharon and Yasser Arafat. But deeper than that is a clash between two cultures: the Jewish culture and Islamic culture. At times this seems to be a clash between God’s plan and Satan’s plan. I deeply believe that God has a plan for the Jews and for the land of Palestine. The violence is Satan’s opposition."
--Jerry Falwell

"My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.
--James Watt, The Washington Post, May 24, 1981

"America is under the judgment of God. And if we are ever going to rebuild this country, it must be under God's law. Our goal must be simple: We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the Ten Commandments. No apologies."
--Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, address to "Cities of Refuge" campaign, Willoughby Hills, OH, July, 1993

"A cult is any group that has a form of godliness, but does not recognize Jesus Christ as the unique son of God."....."One test of a cult is that it often does not strictly teach that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who Himself is God manifested in the flesh."......"Christian-oriented cults include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), the Worldwide Church of God, Christian Science, Unity, Unitarianism, The Way International, Rosicrucian Society of America, Bahai, Hare Krishna, Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Jehovah's Witnesses."
--CBN pamphlet "Cults," 1992

"When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."
--Gary Potter, president of Catholics for Christian Political Action

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
--Jerry Falwell

"We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself."
--Jerry Falwell

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
--Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976

"If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth."
--Jerry Falwell, "Moral Majority Report" for September, 1984

"The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."
--Jerry Falwell, Finding Inner Peace and Strength

"What this is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church."
--Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, speech in Jackson, Miss., 4/92,

"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant--baptism and holy communion--must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel."
-- Gary North - Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism, Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989, p. 87

"Most politically active Christians don't want equal time with homosexuals, abortionists, animal worshipping pagans, witches, radical feminists and pornographers. We want them silenced and mercifully disciplined according to the word of God."
--Jay Rogers reviewing Ralph Reed's Politically Incorrect in "Chalcedon Report," 2/95

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
--George Bush Sr. to a reporter August 27, 1988, while serving as vice-president and running for President

"My heart sank when they opened the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance service in the name of God, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus and Allah. I don’t pray in the name of Baal any more than I pray in the name of Allah. Because guess what? Allah is a different god. It’s not one big umbrella, and we shouldn’t just get along. If you look at the Bible, God isn’t real fond of people who pray to false gods."
--Janet Folger, head of TV preacher D. James Kennedy’s Center for Reclaiming America

"Christianity and politics not only do mix, but for democracy as we have known it to survive, they must mix."
-- Rev. Donald Wildmon, Miami Herald, (11/16/93)

"The world will not know how to live or which direction to go without the Church's Biblical influence on its theories, laws, actions, and institutions."
--Randall Terry

"We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."
--Gary Bauer

"So let us be blunt about it: We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will be get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."
--Gary North, "The Intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right" in Christianity and Civilization: The Failure of the American Baptist Culture, No. 1 (Spring, 1982), p. 25

"Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."
--Pat Buchanan, speech to the Christian Coalition, Sept. 1993, as reported in ADL Report, 1994

"The present war is not a war between a secular nation and a Muslim nation. Ours is not a secular nation. We are the single-most religious of all the advanced nations, and the third- or fourth-most religious of all nations anywhere on earth. Our Founding's religion, in case you want to know, is predominantly Christian and Jewish. And a good thing, too!"
--Michael Novak, National Review

"The 'Owner's Manual' for the Constitution is the Bible."
--Tony Nassif, California Christian Coalition and the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools

"There is no separation of church and state. There always has been, and always will be, a role for Christianity and the gospel in American public policy."
--Rev. Louis Sheldon (head of the Traditional Values Coalition), Charisma magazine

"But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination."
--R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973), p. 296

"The Quran's good verses are like the food an assassin adds to poison to disguise a deadly taste. Better to find the same food, sans poison, in the Bible."
--Don Richardson, a well-known missionary who worked in Muslim countries, in Secrets of the Quran (Regal Books, 2003)

"This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us."
--D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation in Search of Its Soul, 1994 (p. 85)

"Iraq's problem is tyranny of the minority. Ironically, that's our problem as well. But the Iraqi people at least stand to be liberated and have their tyrant deposed. We need to do the same with ours, albeit with different means: impeachment proceedings against ... the federal judges who made this decision should commence as soon as possible."
--William Donohue, leader of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 2/28/03 press release regarding the 9th Circuit Court's "Pledge Ruling"

"This abominable ruling by an imperious court is a slap in the face to all Americans and people of faith."
--James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family

"[The Pledge of Allegiance is a] perfect 31-word explanation of who we are and what we believe as a nation."
--Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK)

"Only a constitutional amendment will stop the courts from supporting intolerant attacks on expressions of faith."
--Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK)

"For the last 40 years, the anti-Christian Left in America has waged a sustained attack against faith in God, traditional moral norms, the rule of law and the traditional marriage-based family."
--House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)

"If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?"
"There is another war [besides Iraq] going on in this country. This one is far more insidious. It's one that you just can't go and attack. It's a war for the absolute soul of this country."
"God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock - and that rock was our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode."
--Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, at the Alabama Christian Coalition's "Friends of the Family" Celebration, 3/8/03

"A good bit of the country thinks the meaning of America is it's a place where you get to do whatever you want. Different strokes for different folks; if it feels good, do it.... And then there are people like us who believe with all our hearts that that was NOT what the country was supposed to be about. We believe that it's supposed to be a place built on ordered liberty under God."
"Somebody gets to put their views into practice through our laws. And the winner of this big war between those two worldviews is going to win our children. In the war over the meaning of America, we're going to win."
--Gary Bauer, Family Research Council's Washington Briefing, 3/15/03

"It's an issue of patriotism. The Islamic religion is so . . . part and parcel with the attack on America. I just didn't want to be there, be a part of that. Even though the mainstream Islamic religion doesn't profess to hate America, nonetheless it spawns the groups that hate America."
"[T]he religion is the focal point of the hate-America sentiment in the world."
"My god is not Mohammed."
--Rep. Lois McMahan, (R) - Gig Harbor [Washington] - One of two Republican representatives to walk of the House floor when Imam Mohamad Joban gave the opening prayer -- Rep. Cary Condotta, (R) - East Wenatchee added, "let's just say I wasn't particularly interested."

"It has come to my attention that comments that I made Monday afternoon have caused misunderstanding and offenses. I want to make it clear that it was not my intention to offend anyone by my actions or words.
"Specifically, I want to state that it was not my intention to slight or show any ill will toward Imam Mohamad Joban or any other American member of the Islamic faith."
--Rep. Lois McMahan, (R) - Gig Harbor [Washington], "apologizing" on the House floor

"Anybody that doesn't believe in God isn't a good citizen.... If an atheist found a wallet on the ground, they would pick it up, plunder the money and throw the wallet back on the ground."
--Glen Schmidt, district committee chair of the Chief Seattle Council [Boy Scouts]

"Chesterfield's non-sectarian invocations are traditionally made to a divinity that is consistent with the Judeo-Christian tradition. Based upon our review of Wicca, it is neo-pagan and invokes polytheistic, pre-Christian deities. Accordingly, we cannot honor your request to be included on the list of religious leaders that are invited to provide invocations at the meetings of the Board of Supervisors."
--Chesterfield County Attorney Steven L. Micas, in response to Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan who asked to give an invocation before the Board

"I hope she's a good witch, like Glinda." --Supervisor Renny B. Humphrey
"It is a mockery. It is not any religion I would subscribe to. There are certain places we ought not go, and this is one of them." --Board Chair Kelly E. Miller --Comments made to the Richmond Times-Dispatch about Cynthia Simpson and her beliefs

"That [Wicca] is basically a non-religion. It doesn't recognize the God that we have recognized. My perspective is that we should continue to follow the Judeo-Christian perspective. In the name of diversity, we need not throw away our Christian heritage."
--Board Chair Kelly E. Miller commenting to The Washington Post after Ms. Simpson brought legal action against the Board
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Anti-Public Schools

"We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America."
--Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan addressing the anti-gay rally in Des Moines, 2-11-96

"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."
--Jesse Helms, part of a fundraising mailer sent out by the Helms campaign

"...If a local community provides for school prayer, and the children of that community voluntarily choose to participate in it, this collective decision allows God to intercede in the public dimension of that community. Restoring school prayer will allow God's angels to leap into action to arrest hellish energy patterns before they can sprout and spill over into the public square."
-- Steven Showers, Director of The School Prayer Resource Center, Newbury Park, California, in a letter to The Simi Valley Star & Enterprise, January 1, 1995

"One day, I hope in the next ten years, I trust that we will have more Christian day schools than there are public schools. I hope I will live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
--Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979

"America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught."
--Pat Buchanan, "The City and The Crusade", Commencement Address for Christendom College, May 6, 1996

"The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."
--D. James Kennedy, "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions," Coral Ridge Ministries, 1993

''We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls.''
--William "Bill" Murray, addressing the "God and Country II" rally, speaking about the need for prayer & Bible recitations in school

"The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it homeschool."
--Jerry Falwell, "Trends in Christian Higher Education," Regent University, 9/22/93

"Only stupid parents would leave their children in the filthy, immoral, dangerous, public 'education' institutions for indoctrination by socialists . . . who don't seem to care about the safety of children . . . only their pay checks."
--J.M. Sutherland, Ph.D - The Christian Alert Network

"We wonder why they [students] carry guns and kill each other. Well, we've told them "You're nothing, you're a freak, you're an accident of nature. That's all'"
--Benny Proffitt, President of First Priority of America - comments on teaching evolution
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Homophobia

"Those who practice homosexuality should swiftly be put to death by the government. God emphatically condemns the practice of exchanging proper gender characteristics among men and women. God justly calls for the death-penalty for anyone who practices homosexuality."
--Citizens for the Ten Commandments

"In my opinion, gays and lesbians should be put in some type of mental institute [sic] instead of having a law like this passed for them."
--Letter to the Editor by George County Justice Court Judge Connie Wilkerson published March 28, 2002 in the GEORGE COUNTY (Mississippi) TIMES

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
--Jerry Falwell

"The homosexual blitzkrieg has been better planned and executed than Hitler's."
--Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA), The New Republic, 08-01-94

"A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything."
--Janet Parshall, Family Research Council's "Washington Watch Radio Commentary," Sept. 1, 2000 - Comments about a church firing a lesbian worker

"The end goal of gay activism is the criminalization of Christianity."
--Robert H. Knight, Director of Cultural Studies at FRC

"If personal safety means discrimination, then I’m all for it."
--Janet Parshall, FRC Washington Watch Radio Commentary, Sept. 21, 2000 - Comments regarding the ban on gay & bisexual men donating blood

"The perversion that follows homosexuality is bestiality and then human sacrifice and cannibalism."
--Barbara Blewster, a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the Arizona State Legislature

"I want to coin a phrase here, and I don't mind help. What would be the communication version of "ethnic cleansing?" Because that's what in particular the homosexual activists try to do."
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger, August 11, 1999

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariottiers."
--Jerry Falwell

"Now I have learned that the radical, perverted homosexuals and lesbians are already promoting their '2000 Disney Gay Day' -- with Disney's help! And they are timing it to occur in June -- right when children out of school will be flocking to Disney-owned parks! This proves the true intent of these homosexuals: they are after our children!!"
--Bonnie Mawyer, wife of Christian Action Network founder, in a March 2000 letter blasting Disney for allowing gay groups to visit Disney World.

"Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle."
--Pat Buchanan September 3, 1989

"One of the things we have got to do as a church is simply apologize and beg forgiveness of the gay community."
--Father Beattie, Los Angeles

"The male homosexual is the most dangerous predator that is allowed to walk free on the earth."
--Sam Woodgeard

"God Hates Fags!"
--Rev. Fred Phelps

"Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family."
--Pat Buchanan, 1977

"Gay rights activists seek to substitute, for laws rooted in Judeo-Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie."
--Pat Buchanan, Wall Street Journal, January 21, 1993

"The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS)."
--Pat Buchanan, discussing AIDS in 1983.

"With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide,"
--Pat Buchanan, October 17, 1990.

"The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality back into the closet."
--Gary DeMar, Ruler of the Nations, 1987

"AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature."
--Pat Buchanan in his 1992 presidential campaign

"I am not ready to give this great nation over to one-world government extremists...radical, disease-carrying homosexuals...or anti-family lesbian feminists...or hate-mongering atheists who despise our religious beliefs...or the ACLU who would deny us our free speech rights...or anti-American U.N. globalists!"
--A February 2000 mailing from the Christian Action Network soliciting support to help conservatives keep control of Congress.

"We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts."
--Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), on why he opposed approval of the Ryan White CARE act, which funds AIDS research

"Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way...and our nation will pay a terrible price!"
--Jerry Falwell quoted in People for the American Way's, "Hostile Climate," 1997, p.15.

"Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America."
--Jerry Falwell

"[Vice President Gore] recently praised the lesbian actress who plays 'Ellen' on ABC Television...I believe he may even put children, young people, and adults in danger by his public endorsement of deviant homosexual behavior...Our elected leaders are attempting to glorify and legitimize perversion."
--Jerry Falwell, quoted in People for the American Way, "Hostile Climate," 1998, p.9

"Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way...and our nation will pay a terrible price!"
--Jerry Falwell, quoted in People for the American Way, "Hostile Climate," 1997, p.15

"I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status."
--Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat, quoted from The Religious Freedom Coalition, The Two faces of Jerry Falwell

"To whom--

It is with deep regret that I have a conflicting engagement July 16..and cannot address your conclave of leeches.

It would have been a delight to condemn roundly the most worthless and no-'count populace of women in Tennessee. You are too lazy to get yourself out of your filthy practices and who would want to marry a pervert?

Certainly no decent man in Tennessee. Womanhood has fallen to a low degree indeed but you are the worst. It is my suspicion that you have a tax-exempt foundation so your perverted donors and fake benefactors can get their April 15 kickback.

But by the Grace of the God of our Fathers, I will redeem the name of American and Tennessee Volunteer.

/s/ Jane Griffin
Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate

Romans 1"
--June Griffin of Dayton, Tennessee - responding to an invitation from Equality Tennessee to attend their fifth congressional district candidate forum at Vanderbilt on July 16
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Sexism

Pro-choice activists "are usually pretty big, heavyset women who look like they've been over working Oktoberfest for the last six years. You know, there's six beer mugs in each arm. All right, it's a stereotype, but I swear looking at that footage, that's what you see - a lot of people who are angry, women who have shed their femininity and adopted a masculine outlook and are fiercely protective of abortion, which is the holy sacrament of feminism."
--Robert H. Knight, Director of Cultural Studies at FRC

"I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem."
--Jerry Falwell

"Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."
--Pat Buchanan (11/22/83)

"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer."
--Pat Buchanan, "Right from the Beginning," p. 149

"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall."
--Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), repeating a joke he heard

"Men in the pro-choice movement are either men trapped in women's bodies...or younger guys who are like camp followers looking for easy sex."
--Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA)

"Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God."
--Phyllis Schlafly

"Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line."
--Jerry Falwell

"The long term goal [is] the execution of abortionists and parents who hire them. If we argue that abortion is murder, then we must call for the death penalty."
--Gary DeMar, Ruler of the Nations, 1987

"It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married)."
--Phyllis Schlafly, founder and leader of the Eagle Forum
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Racism

"Quit looking at the symbols. Get out and get a job. Quit shooting each other. Quit having illegitimate babies."
--State Rep. John Graham Altman (R-SC), addressing African-American concerns about the 'symbol' of the Confederate Flag, New York Times, 01-24-97

"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."
--Pat Buchanan, "Right from the Beginning," (his 1988 autobiography), p. 131 - Commenting on race relations in the 1940s and 1950s

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
--Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), praising Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign 12/5/02

"My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person?"
--U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin, Congressional Record, 4/9/03

"If I see someone that comes in that has a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over and checked."
--U.S. Rep. John Cooksey (R-LA), Cox News, 9/20/01

"We should just turn the sheriff loose and have him arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line."
--U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Valdosta Daily Times, 11/20/01

"It's a hell of a challenge."
--Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) responding to the question "Conrad, how can
you live back there with all those niggers?" AP, 10/20/94

"I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners or niggers."
--Jesse Helms

"How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?"
--Pat Buchanan, discussing affirmative action (01/23/95)

"You know, and this can be misconstrued, but honest to goodness (husband) Ed and I for years, for 20 years, have been saying, 'You know, look at who runs all the convenience stores across the country.' Every little town you go into, you know?"
- U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), who as the Charlotte News and Observer reported, "confided in a speech that she had been driving, worried, around the country for decades fueled by suspicions about Arab and Arab-looking convenience store owners." 2/7/03

"The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers--the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel. "
--David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation (Ft. Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1984), p. 127
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Mind Control

"The Church doesn't believe in book-burning, but it believes in restricting the use of dangerous books among those whose minds are unprepared for them."
--Francis J. Lally, American Roman Catholic Monsignor, Mike Wallace Interview, Fund for the Republic, 1958

"The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted."
--Francis J. Lally, American Roman Catholic Monsignor, Mike Wallace Interview, Fund for the Republic, 1958]
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Puritanical Sex

"When you know the LORD you have no need for masturbation."
--Brice Wellington

"Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
--Jimmy Swaggart, quoted from http://i.am/not_a_crook

"When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell "Stop!" to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind. Then recite a portion of the Bible or sing a hymn."
--Mormon Guide to Self-Control
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Misc. Lunacy

"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes."
- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, NY Times, 4/3/03, CongressDaily, 3/17/03

"Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist."
- Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), House Majority Whip, during a debate on increasing the minimum wage, Congressional Record, H3706, 04-23-96

"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
- Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Alaska Public Radio, 08-19-96

"They were an endangered species. For many of these Japanese Americans, it wasn't safe for them to be on the street... Some (Japanese Americans) probably were intent on doing harm to us, just as some of these Arab Americans are probably intent on doing harm to us."
- U.S. Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), who according to the AP "agreed with the World War II policy of confining Japanese -Americans to internment camps." AP, 2/5/03

"I always see two Jewish communities in America. One of deep intellect and one of shallow, superficial intellect."
"Liberals are in my estimation just not bright people. They don't think deeply; they don't comprehend; they don't understand. ... They have a narrow educational base, as opposed to the hard scientists."
"If you were a southern, Anglo, Baptist liberal, I promise you, I would say you are not well-educated and probably not a great deep thinker, because that's what liberals are. I have not been impressed with the intellect of the left since I was a freshman in college."
--House Majority Leader Dick Armey, During a round-table discussion for Katherine Harris

"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."
--Jerry Falwell, on CNN's Crossfire, May 17, 1997

"We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
--James Watt (Secretary of the Interior under Reagan)

"I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."
--James Watt, describing his staff to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983

“This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS....You kick him until he passes out--then beat him over the head with a baseball bat.”
--E-mail sent between two Tom DeLay staffers
Of course when the congressman is feeling down he has his friends, such as former Texas Ranger and County Sheriff Milton Wright, who said of Tom: “He can kiss my ass.”

"I think there are some species that ought to be killed off to subdue the Earth."
--Former state Rep. Casey Emerson, R-Bozeman, made the comment during a panel discussion focusing on the Endangered Species Act. He wondered aloud whether "so-called environmentalists" had read the Bible passage stating that people must subdue the Earth. It should be like getting rid of weeds in a wheat field, he said

"Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state."
--Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth R-ID during her 1994 campaign

"The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Also, will they believe what the Media says, considering that its aim is to steal, kill, and destroy?"
--Jimmy Swaggart, The Evangelist, January 1988

"The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making, societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will of God."
--Jerry Falwell, "Can Our Young People Find God in the Pages of Trashy Magazines? No, Of Course Not!" Reader's Digest, Aug. 1985: p142-157

"From my personal perspective, I think that a prayer life and a country that respects a higher being, our God, is a stronger country. I believe that, and I think the vast majority of the people in Texas and in this country believe that."
"I happen to think we all pray to the same God. I'll let the theologians split the hairs and do all those kind of things."
"Why not? They [the Supreme Court] took it out. They can sure put it [school prayer] back in."
--Texas Gov. Rick Perry commenting after he prayed at an school assembly at Palestine Middle School -- Click for more information

"My process has been, frankly, unusually deliberative for my administration."
--George W. Bush, commenting on his stem cell research decision

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
--Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, NPR Morning Edition, 05-25-01

"The judges need to be intimidated, they need to uphold the Constitution. If they don't behave, we're going to go after them in a big way."
--House Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay, The Washington Post

"When I see a first-class individual who makes $80,000 a year, he's lower middle class. When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year, that's middle class. When I see anyone above that, that's upper middle class."
--Rep. Fred Heineman (R-NC), explaining that his yearly income of $180,000 leaves him short of middle-class status

"[T]he president wants even more money from the tobacco industry. He announced a new Justice Department lawsuit supposedly to recover the costs of smoking. But the government really saves money because of smoking. Many smokers die before Medicare and Social Security pays them the usual benefits."
--Janet Parshall, FRC Washington Watch Radio Commentary, Feb. 1, 1999

"Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."
--Rev. Jimmy Swaggart

"Indeed, the time has come for Congress to call into question the very legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s status as sole and final arbiter of what the Constitution means."
--Chuck Colson, "Whose Constitution Is It Anyway?," June 26, 1997

"It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information. It's an unfortunate reality that the issuance of incomplete information and even misinformation by government may sometimes be perceived as necessary to protect vital interests."
--Solicitor General Theodore Olson, arguing before the US Supreme Court, 3/18/2002

"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."
--Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, speaking of doctors who perform abortions, in an address to the U.S. Taxpayers Alliance, 8/08/95

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor
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Terrorism

Then the battalion’s chaplain asks the men to join him in a short prayer. “Lord, there are bad guys out there,” he says, bowing his head. “Just help us kill ‘em.”
--Name unknown - http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/988070.asp

"There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation."
--President [sic] George W. Bush, 7/2/03, responding to questions about attacks against U.S. soldiers in Iraq

"To those who pit Americans against immigrants, and citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America’s friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil. Our efforts have been crafted carefully to avoid infringing on constitutional rights while saving American lives."
--Attorney General John Ashcroft, Dec. 6, 2001 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee

Bush promised during the presidential campaign to avoid tapping Social Security except in cases of war, recession or a national emergency.
``Lucky me. I hit the trifecta,'' Bush told [Mitch] Daniels shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the budget director.
--Miami Herald, Nov. 29, 2001

He [Bush] recalled the last time he was in Florida, on the morning of Sept. 11, and what went through his mind when the first plane hit New York's World Trade Center: "I used to fly myself, and I said, 'Well, there's one terrible pilot.'"
--Associated Press, Dec. 4, 2001

"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
--Ann Coulter, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, 02-26-02

"That's treason, not patriotism. They ought to be run out of our country and not allowed back."
- Tennessee State Sen. Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville), commenting about people who publicly opposed the Iraq war