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"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."
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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."
"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."
"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."
"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."
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"I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God."
"I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people."
"I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America."
"If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be."
"I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion."
"So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are."
"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved."
"When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?"
"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic."
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