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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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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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