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"I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor."
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"But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?"
"I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion."
"Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people."
"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."
"And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons."
"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."
"The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again."
"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."
"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."
"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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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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