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"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."
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"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."
"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."
"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."
"We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
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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."
"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."
"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."
"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?"
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