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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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"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"
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"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
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"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
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"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
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"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."
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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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"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
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"I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America."
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"I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice."
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"But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government."
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"I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city."
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"I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages."
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"Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change."
Change
"So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present."
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"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."
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"If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be."
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"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."
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