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Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Flag (as recited at Summit Ministries):
"I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe."

"We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
--Ann Coulter, writing about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

"We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it is a very evil and wicked religion."
--Franklin Graham, shortly after 9/11

“Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, the last one of which was a 9-year-old girl.  And I will tell you Allah is not Jehovah either.  Jehovah’s not going to turn you into a terrorist that’ll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people."
--Rev. Jerry Vines, former President of the Southern Baptist Convention, speaking at the June 2002 SBC convention

"Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you."
--Attorney General John Ashcroft, during an interview with syndicated columnist and radio personality Cal Thomas

"Patrick Leahy is a 'God's people-hater.' I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people."
--Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family

"George, do you think you ought to lecture me on what a Christian is all about?"
--Dr. Dobson's reply to George Stephanopoulos when asked about the quote above

"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America - though she doesn't deserve it - a reprieve from the agenda of paganism. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ."
--Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University in a letter to George W. Bush after Nov. 2nd

  U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson asked Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, "Would you acknowledge that Buddhism is a religion?"
  Moore replied, "Buddhism was considered a false religion by the forefathers.  It is not my definition of religion, no.  It was not their definition of religion under the First Amendment of the Constitution."
  "I wasn't really asking that," Thompson said.  "I was just asking whether religion - within the confines of the First Amendment as you view it historically - [if] the term 'religion' includes Buddhists, the Islamic faith, the Hindus?"
  "I don't think so, sir, that Buddhists and other faiths - and I won't speak to all faiths because I'm not a theologian - recognize the Creator, God," Moore replied.  "Some might, but if they do, it's not the God of the Holy Scriptures.  And that's why the Bible is used for the very foundation upon which we take our oaths."
--Roy Moore, during court testimony over the Ten Commandments monument he installed in the Alabama Judicial Building

"Federal district courts have no jurisdiction or authority to prohibit the acknowledgment of God that is specifically recognized in the Constitution of Alabama....  For a federal court to say we cannot acknowledge God contradicts our history and our law."
--Roy Moore, December 10, 2002, in a statement announcing his appeal of the decision requiring the removal of his Ten Commandments monument

"If this bill goes through, Congressman...it is going to guarantee one day pro-life judges on the Supreme Court, pro-family members of Congress.  It's going to make it very difficult for someone like Bill and Hillary Clinton to ever get in the White House again."
--Jerry Falwell, September 13, 2002 - Discussing the "Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act" (H.R. 2357)

"We need to bring the spiritual and the political and the legislature together.  We need to take back our country.  When kids can't pray in school, that should tell you something.  We need to get prayer back in school, and that's just the beginning of many, many things that need to be changed."
--Roberta Combs, President of the Christian Coalition, at the Coalition's 11th "Road To Victory" convention, October 11, 2002

  "I think that many people believe that. (Referring to separation of church and state)  The only problem is it's really a deception from Satan.  Because if God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government.  And there's no way for America to be good if she's not godly."
  "There are more righteous people in this nation that love God than there are evil people.  The only problem is the evil people make more noise than we do, and that is so ridiculous.  What we need more than anything are godly men and women that will pass laws based on God's word and moral principles, not laws based on their own particular feelings."
  "You know when prayer was taken out of the schools in 1962, it was not really about prayer being taken out of the schools, it was a violent assault against the future of the kingdom of God.  Because Satan knew if he could take spirituality away from children that the next generation would not be able to do the kingdom of darkness any damage."
  "I know that we all appreciate and thank God for our godly president.  I believe President [sic] Bush is a man that is going to say what is right and he is going to stand up for God no matter what....  I believe that God is going to keep him there to bring restoration to this nation."
--Joyce Meyer, speaking at the "Road To Victory" convention

"Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic) can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the disenfranchisement of White men."
--State Rep. Don Davis (R-NC), emailed to every member of the North Carolina House and Senate, reported by the Fayetteville Observer, 08-22-01

"[T]he text of the Pledge [of Allegiance] has become so engrained in the national psyche that declaring it unconstitutional would have its own Establishment Clause costs, as a generation of school children would struggle to unlearn the Pledge they have recited for years and, under the direction of public school teachers, would labor to banish the reference to God from their memory.  That would bespeak a level of hostility to religion that is antithetical to the very purpose of the Establishment Clause."
--Solicitor General Theodore Olson in a legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing to keep the phrase "under god" in the Pledge of Allegiance

"The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite. The personalities of each god are evident in the cultures, civilizations and dispositions of the peoples that serve them. Muhammad's central message was submission; Jesus' central message was love. They seem to be very different personalities."
--Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, commenting on George W. Bush's statement that Christians and Muslims "worship the same god."

  "[T]he only purpose of the First Amendment was to allow the acknowledgment of God....  [T]he very purpose of the First Amendment was to allow the acknowledgment of God."
  "We need to learn that God is the standard, and God was the standard for law in our country, and we need to acknowledge that and then all of these other things would follow."
  "All of our forefathers knew that the event was in the hand of God, and the Constitution was about the acknowledgement of God."
  "Dr. Robertson for 40 years they’ve been saying that we can acknowledge God if it doesn't mean anything, in the federal courts. That’s a violation of the Third Commandment, 'Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.' Indeed, government cannot tell you, federal judges cannot tell you what you think. And that's exactly what they’re trying to do, taking away the knowledge of God from our land, and it’s the basis for everything, it’s the basis for our marriages…"
--Roy Moore, suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice

"I think Mohammed was a terrorist.  He - I read enough of the history of his life written by both Muslims and – and - non-Muslims, that he was a - a violent man, a man of war.  And I do believe that - Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses.  And I think that Mohammed set an opposite example."
--Jerry Falwell, 60 Minutes, October 6, 2002

"I have never said in a sermon or a speech that Muhammad is a terrorist."
--Jerry Falwell, interview with Religion News Service

"[T]he persecution or elimination of non-Muslims has been a cornerstone of Islamic conquests and rule for centuries."  [The Quran] provides ample evidence that Islam encourages violence in order to win converts and to reach the ultimate goal of an Islamic world."
--Franklin Graham, Wall Street Journal [Another "Christian" bashing other religions for what is equally present in the Bible]

  "My creed is the Bible, which tells me I am supposed to stand up and defend my faith.  I don't hate Muslims, I just hate their false doctrines."
  "I expected some people would be offended, just as if someone put up a sign that said the Bible should be flushed.  That would offend me as a Christian.  This is America and we have the freedom of the press, so I have the right to put up this sign."
  "We are all told to be tolerant.  You can be tolerant of other people, but that doesn't mean you have to accept anything that teaches against what is in the Bible."
--Rev. Creighton Lovelace, pastor of the 55-member Danieltown Baptist Church in Forest City, NC  Picture of the sign

  "All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school that has a strong appreciation for values, the kind of values that I think are associated with the Christian communities, and so that this child can be brought up in an environment that teaches them to have a strong faith and to understand that there is a force greater than them personally."
  "In a religious environment the value system is pretty well set and supported.  In public schools there are so many different kids from different kinds of experiences that it's very hard to get consensus around some core values."
  "The reason that Christian schools and Christian universities are growing is a result of a strong value system. In a religious environment the value system is set. That's not the case in a public school where there are so many different kids with different kinds of values."
  "Absolutely, I think that religious values are wonderful values that we should embrace in our daily lives wherever we are...." [Response to whether religious values should be taught in public schools]
  "I would off them my prayers." [Response to those who don't like the Bush administration's overt religiosity]
--Former U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige, Baptist Press

"That's the phoniest argument there is. (Referring to separation of church and state)  This whole nation was founded as one nation under God."
--Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), speaking at the "Road To Victory" convention

  "[Elected officials must] do what the scriptures say.  God told me I would be in Congress, but he gave me two words: 'No compromise.'"
  "[I]t gets a little lonely on the House floor.  We need more Christians in Congress; we need more godly people....  Let's bring this nation back to godly values; let's bring this nation back to godly principles."
--Rep. Jo Ann Davis (R-Va.), speaking at the "Road To Victory" convention - Ms. Davis is in need of facts: 491 of the 535 members of the 107th Congress professed a Christian religious affiliation

"Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office."
--Beverly LaHaye, President of Concerned Women for America

"That phrase (separation of church and state) has so warped our society it's unbelievable."
--Roy Moore, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, speaking at the "Road To Victory" convention

"I hope the Supreme Court will finally read the Constitution and see there's no such thing, or no mention, of separation of church and state in the Constitution."
--House Majority Leader Ton DeLay (R-TX), March 1, 2005

"What we are witnessing here are hate crimes against Christianity – the manifestations, the symptoms of a sickness of the soul, a disease a Vatican diplomat correctly calls 'Christianophobia,' the fear and loathing of all things Christian, coupled with a fanatic will to expunge from the public life of the West all reminders that ours was once a Christian civilization and America once a Christian country."
--Pat Buchanan, December 13, 2004 in WorldNetDaily

FALWELL: "Up until this generation with the influence of the American Civil Liberties Union and anti-Christ groups like Americans United for Separation of Church and State --"

COLMES: "Oh 'anti,' that's not true, Reverend. They're not 'anti-Christ.'"

FALWELL: "It is true. I know those guys and the fact is they're so anti-religious, anti-Christian that they have tried to secularize the country."
--Jerry Falwell on the November 22, 2004 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes

"Of course the United States is a Christian country. In fact it is a baseball-loving Christian country. Which doesn't mean that everyone is a Christian or loves baseball. Which doesn't empower the government to establish a national baseball team or force non-Christians to be baptized. It is just a statement of fact."
-- David Gelertner, "Onward, Christian Solider," November 3 issue of The Weekly Standard

"Why do they hate us so much? I will tell you this. This is my own personal belief. One of the most fundamental reasons they hate us is (a) because we are a nation of believers, and (b) because we support Israel. Now, if you don't believe that this nation was founded on Christian beliefs, Christian values, then go back and read the writings and the orations of the founders of this nation, read what they said. Every man that signed the Constitution of the United States was of the Christian faith."
--Lt. General William G. Boykin

“Well, you know what I knew, that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.”
--Lt. General William G. Boykin, in a January 2003 speech in Daytona, FL, recalling his efforts to capture an Islamic militant in Somalia who had said he would be protected by Allah.  After the militant was captured, Boykin told him, “Mr. Atto, you underestimated our God.”

“Why is this man [George W. Bush] in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.”
--Lt. General William G. Boykin, June 2003

"This is not a political speech. I am in fact apolitical. But why is George W. Bush in the White House? …You must recognize that we as Americans saw a miracle unfold with the election of George W. Bush. Whether you voted for him or not is irrelevant. The fact is he is there today not only to lead America, but to lead the world, and that is what he is doing. Where does he start his day? He starts his day in the Oval Office at 4:30 with a Bible in his hand."
--Lt. General William G. Boykin

"We as Americans, we as Christians, need to understand that that's not the enemy that America's up against. In fact, the enemy that we're up against is called the principality of darkness, he's called Satan. We are in fact in a spiritual battle, ladies and gentlemen, more than we are in a physical battle."
--Lt. General William G. Boykin

  "The enemy will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus."
  "[W]e're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian and the enemy is a guy named Satan."
  "We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this."
--Lt. General William G. Boykin

"Indeed, we must acknowledge god because our [Alabama] Constitution says our justice system is established upon God.  For him to say that I can't say who God is is to disestablish the justice system of this state.  There's a moral law which the state has to honor."
--Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, CBS News Early Show

 "I don't think it is right that we are required to rent a facility to a group that promotes witchcraft.  I don't think our founding fathers had renting public facilities to witchcraft groups in mind when they made up the laws."
  "If it were just me making the call, I would not rent the facility to them."
--County Commissioner Pete Shaub [around Lancaster, PA]

  "I have many Muslim friends, but I want the people of this country to know that the god of Islam is not the Christian god. The god of Islam is not a father. The god of Christianity was the father of Jesus Christ. There's a mood in this country that we'll believe a generic belief. That is not acceptable. Political correctness has run amok in this country."
  "This country was not built by Hindus, nor Muslims, nor atheists. It was built by Christian men and women."
  "We need a sexual education program that warns young people of the hell they'll create with their own bodies. Outside of marriage, sex kills." He cites his own experience; he was "sexually active" before his 1974 marriage to his wife, Jane.
  "Alan Dershowitz said I alienated millions by praying in the name of Jesus Christ. In what other name should I pray? If a Hindu president was being inaugurated, that president could have summoned a clergyman to pray in the name of Hindu gods."
  "I am not attacking Muslims. But how come the Muslim clerics have not gone to ground zero and had a prayer vigil and apologized to the nation in the name of Islam?"
  "But where are the Muslim clerics? When people say this is a 'peaceful religion,' don't tell me that. When a suicide bomber straps on a bomb, that's not peaceful. The Baptists are not doing that. Neither are the Pentecostals."
--Franklin Graham, various quotes reported in the August 8 Washington Post

"They would have us believe that Islam is just as good as Christianity.  Christianity was founded by the virgin-born son of God, Jesus Christ. Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, the last one of which was a 9-year-old girl.  And I will tell you Allah is not Jehovah either.  Jehovah’s not going to turn you into a terrorist that’ll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people."
--Rev. Jerry Vines, Former President of the Southern Baptist Convention and current pastor of the 25,000-member First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., June 10, 2002

"Lots of people I’ve spoken to – not just the grassroots but also leaders of other pro-family organizations – are bewildered at why George Bush is doing so much to pay homage to Islam. Conservative evangelicals love Muslims. They care for them. They want to provide religious freedom for them. However, they are diametrically opposed to Islam. It’s the same difference we have with the homosexual community. We care about homosexuals, yet we’re opposed to their agenda because we know it destroys their lives. Likewise, we care about Muslims, but we’re opposed to even any tacit endorsement of Islam because it’s against the will of God."
--Joe Glover of the Family Policy Network, a Virginia-based group known mostly for criticizing gay rights; from Beliefnet.com

"We don’t believe Islam needs validating at the highest level of American government. A lot of people think Bush has bent way too far over backward to say nice things about Muslims."
--David Crowe, director of Restore America, a group based in Oregon

  "[The wall of separation] has caused oppression and aids the spread of crime, violence, immorality and false ideology, enslaving our society....The wall is constructed of lies, false interpretation of laws and enforcement of laws contradictory to the intent of the Constitution."
  "When the Berlin Wall finally came down, thousands crossed the border to freedom and the opportunity for a prosperous life. So, too, as the mythical wall of separation is removed, thousands will be able to learn of America's true Christian heritage and the principles and morals that this heritage has bestowed."
--Sam Silligato, 1998 Salvation army publication The War Cry

  "We curse the darkness, we're against what the ACLU and Americans United are, and what the crazy runaway liberal judges are doing.  We're going to train a few thousand Christian attorneys who are just as radical as the preachers."
  "We're here to stay, we're going to bring this nation back and we couldn't care less what you [his opponents] think about it."
--Jerry Falwell, speaking about his new Liberty University Law School while at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, August 24, 2004

"Ladies and gentlemen, Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of 'Where did I come from?' 'Why am I here?' 'Where am I going?' 'Does life have any meaningful purpose?' " DeLay said. "Only Christianity offers a way to understand that physical and moral border. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world -- only Christianity."
--House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) at the First Baptist Church of Pearland, TX., on April 12, 2002

"This gives me a chance to get the truth out, uncut. This country runs and operates on the Judeo-Christian ethic that comes from the Bible."
--Rep. Randy Ball (R-Titusville) in remarks about the Florida ban on adoption by homosexuals

"We need to tell both parties, 'It's our way or the highway.'  You and I can bring the ruling reign of the cross to America."
--Bishop Harry Jackson at Justice Sunday II

"We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void".
--Cal Thomas, Washington Times, October 23, 1996

"I speak for Jesus when I say, 'Fuck You and the donkey you rode in on!'"
--Brice Wellington

"Obviously, I would tell our nation, 'Prepare to meet thy God.' America must return to God. We must return to America's obligation to the Creator, the One we originally recognized in the Declaration of Independence. We must recognize God's providential care of this nation and His blessing on our people."
--Jerry Falwell on "Old Time Gospel Hour," June 1, 1997

"Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the founders had in mind in the First Amendment of the Constitution... [W]e must fight against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours."
--Jerry Falwell, March 1993 sermon

"We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context."
--Paul Weyrich, founder and president of the Free Congress Foundation

"What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time... I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians..."
--Religious News Service, 5/1/1990

"Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable."
--Robert Simonds, founder & president of Citizens for Excellence in Education

"As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families."
--Robert Simonds

"Most American children do not know that this is a Christian nation... [O]ur Constitution won't work in Russia, won't work in Haiti, won't work in Iraq. It only works where the people believe in the Christ of the Bible. The United States of America."
--Jerry Falwell on "Sunday Live with Jerry Falwell," July 23, 1995

  "For too long, government has attempted to censor expression of religion.  Discrimination against religion under the guise of separation of church and state needs to end."
  "The Ten Commandments represent the very cornerstone of the values this nation was built upon, and the basis of so much of our legal system here in America."
--U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R -Ala.), March 7, 2002 during the unveiling of the "Ten Commandments Defense Act" - H. R. 3895

"[The bill] does not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.  The Ten Commandments do not represent one single religion - in fact they are tenets of Judaism, Islam and Christianity."
--Rep. Robert Aderholt, quoted in press materials released in February 2002

"Our founding fathers, they were going to take the word of God, and God has given us in the Bible his word, and they said this book will always be true, and if there is ever a close call in policy, in leadership, in law, in society, if there's ever a question, we want to look to the source of absolute truth.  That's why the Ten Commandments are so important.  They were the original source of American law."
--David Gibbs, attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents, at the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference

"Father, we echo the words of the apostle Paul, because we know Judge Greer claims to be a Christian. So as the Apostle Paul said in First Corinthians 5, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit."
--Unknown preacher at the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference

For articles about the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference, visit The Nation

"(W)hile it is true that the United States of America was founded on the sacred principle of religious freedom for all, that liberty was never intended to exalt other religions to the level that Christianity holds in our country's heritage. Our Founders expected that Christianity -- and no other religion -- would receive support from the government as long as that support did not violate peoples' consciences and their right to worship. They would have found utterly incredible the idea that all religions, including paganism, be treated with equal deference. As for our Hindu priest friend, the United States is a nation that has historically honored the one true God. Woe be to us on that day when we relegate him to being merely one among countless other deities in the pantheon of theologies."
--Family Research Council, Culture Facts newsletter 9/21/2000, commenting on a Hindu priest giving the opening prayer in the House of Representatives

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, (Ft. Wayne, IN.), 8/16/93

"We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."
--Jay Grimstead, February 1987

"The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."
--John Whitehead, founder & president of the Rutherford Institute, The Separation Illusion

"Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."
--Rev. Joseph Morecraft, Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, "Biblical Role of Civil Government" speech given 8/31/93 at Biblical Worldview and Christian Education Conference

"The most humble Christian is more qualified for office than the best-educated pagan. We built quite a little grass-roots machine out there [in San Diego]. Now it's my burden to multiply that success all across America."
--Gary Cass, executive director of Reclaiming America, talking about Christians taking over school boards

"Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society."
--D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries describing the role of Christians

"The Christian glories in the death of a pagan because thereby Christ himself is glorified."
--Saint Bernard, Richard the Lionheart (J. Gillingham; 1989), quoted from Encarta Book of Quotations

"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."
--John Ashcroft, Commencement address given on May 8, 1999 at Bob Jones University

"If you don't want a Christian nation, then go to one of the many nations that are heathen already, rather than perverting ours."  "You're welcome to come, but leave your religions, your bibles, all your other things back where you came from."  "Islam and America are opposites. They hate us. They want to kill us.  I'm not anti-Jewish or anti-Catholic. I'm anti-Islam because that religion right there is anti-American."
--Jeff Fugate, pastor of Clays Mill Road Baptist Church, Lexington, KY, July 03, 2002
Fugate said he has heard from dozens of people who approved of the rally and his message. He also criticized liberals, homosexuals, cross-dressers, Hollywood stars, rock musicians and the U.S. Supreme Court.

"I am sure that only a Christian-controlled country is going to be able to stand up to the impending threat and avert the approaching disaster that our nation is facing."
--Rev. D. James Kennedy, president of the Center for Reclaiming America

"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."
--Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989), p. 102

"Hey - get with the program! CHRISTIANS are INDIVIDUALS!! NON-CHRISTIANS are a BIG BLURRY MESS!!!"
--Melinda Shore

"[W]e need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture."
--Keith A. Fournier, ACLJ brochure "Religious Cleansing"

"With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew."
--Bailey Smith, a founding father of Robertson's Christian Coalition, once told 15,000 people at a Religious Roundtable briefing in Dallas, June 26, 1994

"Separation of church and state doesn't mean separation of God and government.  Rule of law doesn't mean rule of man.  Without the acknowledgment of God, there would be no First Amendment."
--Roy Moore, June 20, 2005, addressing the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference in Nashville

  "The long war on Christianity in America continues today on the floor of the United States House of Representatives."
  "Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians."
--Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., June 20, 2005, while debating a defense spending bill amendment about Air Force proselytizing

"The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior."
--Jerry Falwell, Listen, America!

"If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, he has to be Jewish.  The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish."
--Jerry Falwell commenting on the anti-Christ, January 1999

"I’ve been talking to you about the clash between Israel and the Palestinians which is a clash between President Sharon and Yasser Arafat. But deeper than that is a clash between two cultures: the Jewish culture and Islamic culture. At times this seems to be a clash between God’s plan and Satan’s plan. I deeply believe that God has a plan for the Jews and for the land of Palestine. The violence is Satan’s opposition."
--Jerry Falwell  

"My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.
--James Watt, The Washington Post, May 24, 1981

"America is under the judgment of God. And if we are ever going to rebuild this country, it must be under God's law. Our goal must be simple: We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the Ten Commandments. No apologies."
--Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, address to "Cities of Refuge" campaign, Willoughby Hills, OH, July, 1993

"A cult is any group that has a form of godliness, but does not recognize Jesus Christ as the unique son of God."....."One test of a cult is that it often does not strictly teach that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God who Himself is God manifested in the flesh."......"Christian-oriented cults include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), the Worldwide Church of God, Christian Science, Unity, Unitarianism, The Way International, Rosicrucian Society of America, Bahai, Hare Krishna, Scientology, the Unification Church, and the Jehovah's Witnesses."
--CBN pamphlet "Cults," 1992

"When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."
--Gary Potter, president of Catholics for Christian Political Action

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
--Jerry Falwell

"We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism ... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today ... our battle is with Satan himself."
--Jerry Falwell

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
--Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976

"If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth."
--Jerry Falwell, "Moral Majority Report" for September, 1984

"The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."
--Jerry Falwell, Finding Inner Peace and Strength

"What this is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church."
--Randall Terry, Operation Rescue, speech in Jackson, Miss., 4/92,

"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant--baptism and holy communion--must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel."
--Gary North - Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism, Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989, p. 87

"Most politically active Christians don't want equal time with homosexuals, abortionists, animal worshipping pagans, witches, radical feminists and pornographers. We want them silenced and mercifully disciplined according to the word of God."
--Jay Rogers reviewing Ralph Reed's Politically Incorrect in "Chalcedon Report," 2/95

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
--George Bush Sr. to a reporter August 27, 1988, while serving as vice-president and running for President

"My heart sank when they opened the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance service in the name of God, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus and Allah. I don’t pray in the name of Baal any more than I pray in the name of Allah. Because guess what? Allah is a different god. It’s not one big umbrella, and we shouldn’t just get along. If you look at the Bible, God isn’t real fond of people who pray to false gods."
--Janet Folger, head of TV preacher D. James Kennedy’s Center for Reclaiming America

"Christianity and politics not only do mix, but for democracy as we have known it to survive, they must mix."
-- Rev. Donald Wildmon, Miami Herald, (11/16/93)

"The world will not know how to live or which direction to go without the Church's Biblical influence on its theories, laws, actions, and institutions."
--Randall Terry

"When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data."
--Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Research

"We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."
--Gary Bauer

"So let us be blunt about it: We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will be get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."
--Gary North, "The Intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right" in Christianity and Civilization: The Failure of the American Baptist Culture, No. 1 (Spring, 1982), p. 25

"Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."
--Pat Buchanan, speech to the Christian Coalition, Sept. 1993, as reported in ADL Report, 1994

"The present war is not a war between a secular nation and a Muslim nation.  Ours is not a secular nation.  We are the single-most religious of all the advanced nations, and the third- or fourth-most religious of all nations anywhere on earth.  Our Founding's religion, in case you want to know, is predominantly Christian and Jewish.  And a good thing, too!"
--Michael Novak, National Review

"The 'Owner's Manual' for the Constitution is the Bible."
--Tony Nassif, California Christian Coalition and the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools

"There is no separation of church and state.  There always has been, and always will be, a role for Christianity and the gospel in American public policy."
--Rev. Louis Sheldon (head of the Traditional Values Coalition), Charisma magazine

"But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination."
--R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973), p. 296

"The Quran's good verses are like the food an assassin adds to poison to disguise a deadly taste.  Better to find the same food, sans poison, in the Bible."
--Don Richardson, a well-known missionary who worked in Muslim countries, in Secrets of the Quran (Regal Books, 2003)

"This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us."
--D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation in Search of Its Soul, 1994 (p. 85)

"For the last 40 years, the anti-Christian Left in America has waged a sustained attack against faith in God, traditional moral norms, the rule of law and the traditional marriage-based family."
--House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)

  "If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us.  If we don't do it, who will?"
  "There is another war [besides Iraq] going on in this country.  This one is far more insidious.  It's one that you just can't go and attack.  It's a war for the absolute soul of this country."
  "God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock - and that rock was our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.  And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move.  But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode."
--Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, at the Alabama Christian Coalition's "Friends of the Family" Celebration, 3/8/03

  "A good bit of the country thinks the meaning of America is it's a place where you get to do whatever you want.  Different strokes for different folks; if it feels good, do it....  And then there are people like us who believe with all our hearts that that was NOT what the country was supposed to be about.  We believe that it's supposed to be a place built on ordered liberty under God."
  "Somebody gets to put their views into practice through our laws.  And the winner of this big war between those two worldviews is going to win our children.  In the war over the meaning of America, we're going to win."
--Gary Bauer, Family Research Council's Washington Briefing, 3/15/03

  "It's an issue of patriotism.  The Islamic religion is so . . . part and parcel with the attack on America.  I just didn't want to be there, be a part of that.  Even though the mainstream Islamic religion doesn't profess to hate America, nonetheless it spawns the groups that hate America."
  "[T]he religion is the focal point of the hate-America sentiment in the world."
  "My god is not Mohammed."
--Rep. Lois McMahan, (R) - Gig Harbor [Washington] - One of two Republican representatives to walk of the House floor when Imam Mohamad Joban gave the opening prayer -- Rep. Cary Condotta, (R) - East Wenatchee added, "let's just say I wasn't particularly interested."

  "It has come to my attention that comments that I made Monday afternoon have caused misunderstanding and offenses.  I want to make it clear that it was not my intention to offend anyone by my actions or words.
  "Specifically, I want to state that it was not my intention to slight or show any ill will toward Imam Mohamad Joban or any other American member of the Islamic faith."
--Rep. Lois McMahan, (R) - Gig Harbor [Washington], "apologizing" on the House floor

 "The Islamic religion in my view is a cult.  On the show I said that Islam is a dangerous religion."
  "I don't look for everyone to believe what I believe, because everyone is not as astute about religion as I am.  That's my life."
  "I am concerned about the criticism [some directed toward Jeb Bush] in that I don't see where my personal opinion should cause an uproar in other people's hearts."
--Rev. O'Neal Dozier, a Pompano Beach minister and Broward County Judicial Nominating Commission member (appointed by Jeb Bush), July 7, 2006 when asked to recap the controversial comments he made earlier on The Steve Kane Radio Show on WNN-AM 1470. Dozier opposes the opening of an Islamic mosque in the area because "We don't want our area to be a breeding ground for terrorists."  In the past, Dozier has asked Gov. Bush's appointments to the Broward circuit and county courts if they were ''God-fearing,'' and inquired about their parenting abilities.

"Anybody that doesn't believe in God isn't a good citizen....  If an atheist found a wallet on the ground, they would pick it up, plunder the money and throw the wallet back on the ground."
--Glen Schmidt, district committee chair of the Chief Seattle Council [Boy Scouts]

"Chesterfield's non-sectarian invocations are traditionally made to a divinity that is consistent with the Judeo-Christian tradition.  Based upon our review of Wicca, it is neo-pagan and invokes polytheistic, pre-Christian deities.  Accordingly, we cannot honor your request to be included on the list of religious leaders that are invited to provide invocations at the meetings of the Board of Supervisors."
--Chesterfield County Attorney Steven L. Micas, in response to Cynthia Simpson, a Wiccan who asked to give an invocation before the Board

  "I hope she's a good witch, like Glinda."  --Supervisor Renny B. Humphrey
  "It is a mockery.  It is not any religion I would subscribe to.  There are certain places we ought not go, and this is one of them."  --Board Chair Kelly E. Miller --Comments made to the Richmond Times-Dispatch about Cynthia Simpson and her beliefs

 "That [Wicca] is basically a non-religion.  It doesn't recognize the God that we have recognized.  My perspective is that we should continue to follow the Judeo-Christian perspective.  In the name of diversity, we need not throw away our Christian heritage."
--Board Chair Kelly E. Miller commenting to The Washington Post after Ms. Simpson brought legal action against the Board
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Anti-Public Schools

"We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America."
--Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan addressing the anti-gay rally in Des Moines, 2-11-96

"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."
--Jesse Helms, part of a fundraising mailer sent out by the Helms campaign

"...If a local community provides for school prayer, and the children of that community voluntarily choose to participate in it, this collective decision allows God to intercede in the public dimension of that community. Restoring school prayer will allow God's angels to leap into action to arrest hellish energy patterns before they can sprout and spill over into the public square."
-- Steven Showers, Director of The School Prayer Resource Center, Newbury Park, California, in a letter to The Simi Valley Star & Enterprise, January 1, 1995

"One day, I hope in the next ten years, I trust that we will have more Christian day schools than there are public schools. I hope I will live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
--Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979

"America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught."
--Pat Buchanan, "The City and The Crusade", Commencement Address for Christendom College, May 6, 1996

"The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."
--D. James Kennedy, "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions," Coral Ridge Ministries, 1993

''We are completely void of anything to do with God. Teachers can't touch a child - even to hug a crying child. Young boys are on Ritalin and a lot of the problem is because we have a female-dominated educational system which tries to make little boys act like little girls.''
--William "Bill" Murray, addressing the "God and Country II" rally, speaking about the need for prayer & Bible recitations in school

"The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it homeschool."
--Jerry Falwell, "Trends in Christian Higher Education," Regent University, 9/22/93

"Only stupid parents would leave their children in the filthy, immoral, dangerous, public 'education' institutions for indoctrination by socialists . . . who don't seem to care about the safety of children . . . only their pay checks."
--J.M. Sutherland, Ph.D - The Christian Alert Network

"We wonder why they [students] carry guns and kill each other. Well, we've told them "You're nothing, you're a freak, you're an accident of nature. That's all'"
--Benny Proffitt, President of First Priority of America - comments on teaching evolution

"State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse."
--James Dobson, Life on the Edge, p. 233

"Hey, everybody. It's John Gibson in for Bill O'Reilly. And uh, this hour threatens to be big trouble. Big, big, big, big, big trouble. Because this subject has been big trouble in this country since at least -- 1925? Wasn't that when the Scopes trial happened? Inherit the Wind, 1925? And we're still arguing about it, although the argument has transmogrified in a lot of ways and is something different. And it's probably not even fair to talk about the Scopes trial of 1925. When the ACLU found John Scopes and was able to challenge, uh, the teaching of Bible-based science in schools. Successfully. And ever since then, we've had science-based science in schools."
--John Gibson, August 19, 2005, The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly
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Anti-Judiciary

  "We've got to stop the hypocrisy in this country.  We've got to stop judges who go into court and pray and then issue rulings saying we cannot acknowledge God.  We've got to stop judges who go place their hands on the Bible to take oaths and then deny the very God on which that oath is based."
  "You will hear from me again when it comes to the right to acknowledge God."
--Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, after the decision to remove him from the bench

"Iraq's problem is tyranny of the minority.  Ironically, that's our problem as well.  But the Iraqi people at least stand to be liberated and have their tyrant deposed.  We need to do the same with ours, albeit with different means: impeachment proceedings against ... the federal judges who made this decision should commence as soon as possible."
--William Donohue, leader of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 2/28/03 press release regarding the 9th Circuit Court's "Pledge Ruling"

"This abominable ruling by an imperious court is a slap in the face to all Americans and people of faith."
--James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family

"[The Pledge of Allegiance is a] perfect 31-word explanation of who we are and what we believe as a nation."
--Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK)

"Only a constitutional amendment will stop the courts from supporting intolerant attacks on expressions of faith."
--Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK)

"An atmosphere of atheism is being forced upon us by the courts."
--Rev. Rick Scarborough, a Baptist pastor from Texas who heads the new alliance of Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews called the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration

"I'm a radical!  I'm a real extremist.  I don't want to impeach judges.  I want to impale them!"
--Michael Schwartz, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's chief of staff, at the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference

"Ronald Reagan said the Soviet Union was the focus of evil during the cold war. I believe that the judiciary is the focus of evil in our society today."
--Alan Keyes at the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference

"Here again I draw on the wisdom of Stalin. We're talking about the greatest political figure of the 20th century.  He had a slogan and it worked very well for him whenever he ran into difficulty: 'No man, no problem.'  'No man, no problem.'  This is not a structural problem we have.  This is a problem of personnel."
--Edwin Vieira, a lawyer and author of How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary offering advice on reigning in the Supreme Court, at the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" conference

"I heard a minister the other day talking about the great injustice and evil of the men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan, that roamed the country in the South, and they did great wrong to civil rights and to morality. And now we have black-robed men, and that's what you're talking about."
--James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, April 11 radio broadcast

"For this reason, I am requesting that you instruct the Department of Justice and the United States Marshals Service not to enforce this or any appellate - including Supreme Court - decision or execute any order that may ask for the removal of this monument by the Executive Branch.  As you know, the federal judiciary has no constitutional or statutory means by which to enforce its own opinion."
--U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.) in a February 17, 2005 letter to George W. Bush regarding a federal court decision to remove a Ten Commandments monument in Gibson Co., Indiana

"When the courts make unconstitutional decisions, we should not enforce them.  Federal courts have no army or navy....  The court can opine, decide, talk about, sing, whatever it wants to do.  We're not saying they can't do that.  At the end of the day, we're saying the court can't enforce its opinions."
--U.S. Rep. John Hostettler, September 2004, addressing a Christian Coalition gathering

"The point that Congressman Hostettler (R-IN) is raising is long overdue; it is time someone with the proper authority stood up to the runaway judiciary, which does not have the exclusive authority to enforce its own rulings.  The continual stream of judicial decisions from activist judges, beginning in 1947 with Justice Hugo Black when he created the 'wall of separation,' have steadily eroded the rich spiritual soul of our nation, leaving a cavernous divide in our body politic.  Enough is enough!  We echo Congressman Hostettler's request - for the sake of the nation."
--Tony Perkins, Family Research Council President in a February 22, 2005 "Washington Update" bulletin
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Homophobia

"The day after George Bush was elected president again, because of this morals revolution taking place in our country, he allows his vice president to not only put his lesbian daughter on the platform, but to bring her lesbian 'partner' up on the stage with him. It almost seems to be a slap in the face from the get-go against the very conservatives that re-elected the president at a time when he ought to paying them some homage and respect."
--Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network

"Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth."
--James Dobson, October 22, 2004 at a political rally in Oklahoma

"You ask anybody that's investigated homosexual murders and without question they are the most violent...even the sex act itself is violent in homosexuals."
--Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council

  "As far as I'm concerned, people who have AIDS are a danger. They're a danger to spread AIDS. People should be able to know who has AIDS. It costs an awful lot of money to treat them."
  "They bring it on themselves. They don't get it by sitting on the toilet seat. . . . A person who gives AIDS, who spreads AIDS, they're bad people. Everybody wants to be on the good side of everything. Well, I'm taking a stand."
--Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer (D), October 12, 2004

"Those who practice homosexuality should swiftly be put to death by the government. God emphatically condemns the practice of exchanging proper gender characteristics among men and women. God justly calls for the death-penalty for anyone who practices homosexuality."
--Citizens for the Ten Commandments

"In my opinion, gays and lesbians should be put in some type of mental institute [sic] instead of having a law like this passed for them."
--A Letter to the Editor by George County Justice Court Judge Connie Wilkerson published March 28, 2002 in the GEORGE COUNTY (Mississippi) TIMES

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
--Jerry Falwell

"The homosexual blitzkrieg has been better planned and executed than Hitler's."
--Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA), The New Republic, 08-01-94

"A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything."
--Janet Parshall, Family Research Council's "Washington Watch Radio Commentary," Sept. 1, 2000 - Comments about a church firing a lesbian worker

"The end goal of gay activism is the criminalization of Christianity."
--Robert H. Knight, Director of Cultural Studies at FRC

"If personal safety means discrimination, then I’m all for it."
--Janet Parshall, FRC Washington Watch Radio Commentary, Sept. 21, 2000 - Comments regarding the ban on gay & bisexual men donating blood

 "[M]illions of Americans are waking up to the fact that the phrase 'Happy Holidays' is less a happy greeting than a pointed assault on our civil liberties."
  "The agenda of the left is to make religion strictly private and pornography public. And the people behind this agenda, more often than not, are homosexual activists."
--Robert H. Knight, director of the Concerned Woman of America's Culture and Family Institute

"The perversion that follows homosexuality is bestiality and then human sacrifice and cannibalism."
--Barbara Blewster, a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the Arizona State Legislature

"I want to coin a phrase here, and I don't mind help. What would be the communication version of "ethnic cleansing?" Because that's what in particular the homosexual activists try to do."
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger, August 11, 1999

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariottiers."
--Jerry Falwell

"Now I have learned that the radical, perverted homosexuals and lesbians are already promoting their '2000 Disney Gay Day' -- with Disney's help! And they are timing it to occur in June -- right when children out of school will be flocking to Disney-owned parks! This proves the true intent of these homosexuals: they are after our children!!"
--Bonnie Mawyer, wife of Christian Action Network founder, in a March 2000 letter blasting Disney for allowing gay groups to visit Disney World.

"Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say  privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant  liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that  homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle."
 --Pat Buchanan September 3, 1989

"One of the things we have got to do as a church is simply apologize and beg forgiveness of the gay community."
--Father Beattie, Los Angeles

"The male homosexual is the most dangerous predator that is allowed to walk free on the earth."
--Sam Woodgeard

"God Hates Fags!"
--Rev. Fred Phelps

From Fred Phelp's GodHatesAmerica.com

"Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family."
 --Pat Buchanan, 1977

"Gay rights activists seek to substitute, for laws rooted in Judeo-Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie."
--Pat Buchanan, Wall Street Journal, January 21, 1993

"The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS)."
--Pat Buchanan, discussing AIDS in 1983.

"With 80,000 dead of AIDS, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide,"
 --Pat Buchanan, October 17, 1990.

"The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality back into the closet."
--Gary DeMar, Ruler of the Nations, 1987

"AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature."
--Pat Buchanan in his 1992 presidential campaign

"I am not ready to give this great nation over to one-world government extremists...radical, disease-carrying homosexuals...or anti-family lesbian feminists...or hate-mongering atheists who despise our religious beliefs...or the ACLU who would deny us our free speech rights...or anti-American U.N. globalists!"
--A February 2000 mailing from the Christian Action Network soliciting support to help conservatives keep control of Congress.

"We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts."
--Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), on why he opposed approval of the Ryan White CARE act, which funds AIDS research

"The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."
--Senator Jesse Helms

"Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches."
--Senator Jesse Helms

"Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way...and our nation will pay a terrible price!"
--Jerry Falwell quoted in People for the American Way's, "Hostile Climate," 1997, p.15.

"Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America."
--Jerry Falwell

"[Vice President Gore] recently praised the lesbian actress who plays 'Ellen' on ABC Television...I believe he may even put children, young people, and adults in danger by his public endorsement of deviant homosexual behavior...Our elected leaders are attempting to glorify and legitimize perversion."
--Jerry Falwell, quoted in People for the American Way, "Hostile Climate," 1998, p.9

"Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way...and our nation will pay a terrible price!"
--Jerry Falwell, quoted in People for the American Way, "Hostile Climate," 1997, p.15

"I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status."
--Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat, quoted from The Religious Freedom Coalition, The Two faces of Jerry Falwell

  In awarding custody of three teenagers to their father over their lesbian mother, the chief justice of the Alabama supreme court wrote that homosexuality is "an inherent evil" and shouldn't be tolerated. The nine-judge panel ruled unanimously in favor of a Birmingham man and against his ex-wife, who now lives with her lesbian partner in Southern California. The parents weren't named in court documents, to protect the identity of the children, ages 15, 17, and 18.
  Chief justice Roy Moore wrote Friday that the mother's relationship makes her an unfit parent and that homosexuality is "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature."
Full opinion Here

"To whom--

It is with deep regret that I have a conflicting engagement July 16..and cannot address your conclave of leeches.

It would have been a delight to condemn roundly the most worthless and no-'count populace of women in Tennessee. You are too lazy to get yourself out of your filthy practices and who would want to marry a pervert?

Certainly no decent man in Tennessee. Womanhood has fallen to a low degree indeed but you are the worst. It is my suspicion that you have a tax-exempt foundation so your perverted donors and fake benefactors can get their April 15 kickback.

But by the Grace of the God of our Fathers, I will redeem the name of American and Tennessee Volunteer.

/s/ Jane Griffin
Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate

Romans 1"
--June Griffin of Dayton, Tennessee - responding to an invitation from Equality Tennessee to attend their fifth congressional district candidate forum at Vanderbilt on July 16

For a sadly long list of more Religious Right homophobic quotes, visit the Hate Speech section of hatecrime.org
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Sexism

"A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life."
--Bill Napoli, Republican state legislator from South Dakota, describing a circumstance where he'd allow an abortion

"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership."
--James Dobson, Straight Talk, pp. 151-152

"I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."
--Kay O'Connor, (R-KS)

  "And these American prisoners of war -- have you people noticed who the torturers are? Women! The babes! The babes are meting out the torture.
  "You know, if you look at -- if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean, I don't know if it's just me, but it looks just like anything you'd see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I'm -- yeah. And get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean, this is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City -- the movie. I mean, I don't -- it's just me."
--Rush Limbaugh, May 3, 2004

"It was a girl general who was in charge of running our Iraqi prison. And, you know, for one thing, I'm a little disappointed in Rumsfeld--he allows the greatest fighting force on the face of the globe to have girl generals."
--Ann Coulter, in a May 5, 2004 radio interview

"This is lesson, you know, one million and 47 on why women shouldn't be in the military. In addition to not being able to carry even a medium-sized backpack, women are too vicious."
--Ann Coulter on Hannity and Colmes, May 5, 2004

Pro-choice activists "are usually pretty big, heavyset women who look like they've been over working Oktoberfest for the last six years. You know, there's six beer mugs in each arm. All right, it's a stereotype, but I swear looking at that footage, that's what you see - a lot of people who are angry, women who have shed their femininity and adopted a masculine outlook and are fiercely protective of abortion, which is the holy sacrament of feminism."
--Robert H. Knight, Director of Cultural Studies at FRC

"I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem."
--Jerry Falwell

"Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism."
--Pat Buchanan (11/22/83)

"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer."
--Pat Buchanan, "Right from the Beginning," p. 149

"There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall."
--Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), repeating a joke he heard

"Men in the pro-choice movement are either men trapped in women's bodies...or younger guys who are like camp followers looking for easy sex."
--Rep. Bob Dornan (R-CA)

"Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God."
--Phyllis Schlafly

"Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line."
--Jerry Falwell

"The long term goal [is] the execution of abortionists and parents who hire them.  If we argue that abortion is murder, then we must call for the death penalty."
--Gary DeMar, Ruler of the Nations, 1987

"It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married)."
--Phyllis Schlafly, founder and leader of the Eagle Forum
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Racism

"Quit looking at the symbols. Get out and get a job. Quit shooting each other. Quit having illegitimate babies."
--State Rep. John Graham Altman (R-SC), addressing African-American concerns about the 'symbol' of the Confederate Flag, New York Times, 01-24-97

"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."
--Pat Buchanan, "Right from the Beginning," (his 1988 autobiography), p. 131 - Commenting on race relations in the 1940s and 1950s

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
--Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), praising Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign 12/5/02

"My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person?"
--U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin, Congressional Record, 4/9/03

"If I see someone that comes in that has a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over and checked."
--U.S. Rep. John Cooksey (R-LA), Cox News, 9/20/01

"We should just turn the sheriff loose and have him arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line."
--U.S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Valdosta Daily Times, 11/20/01

"It's a hell of a challenge."
--Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT) responding to the question "Conrad, how can
you live back there with all those niggers?" AP, 10/20/94

"I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners or niggers."
--Jesse Helms

"How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?"
--Pat Buchanan, discussing affirmative action (01/23/95)

"You know, and this can be misconstrued, but honest to goodness (husband) Ed and I for years, for 20 years, have been saying, 'You know, look at who runs all the convenience stores across the country.' Every little town you go into, you know?"
- U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), who as the Charlotte News and Observer reported, "confided in a speech that she had been driving, worried, around the country for decades fueled by suspicions about Arab and Arab-looking convenience store owners." 2/7/03

"The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers--the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel. "
--David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance: An Exposition of the Book of Revelation (Ft. Worth, TX: Dominion Press, 1984), p. 127
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Mind Control

"The Church doesn't believe in book-burning, but it believes in restricting the use of dangerous books among those whose minds are unprepared for them."
--Francis J. Lally, American Roman Catholic Monsignor, Mike Wallace Interview, Fund for the Republic, 1958

"The Church has through the centuries, understood that ideas are really more dangerous than other weapons. Their use should be restricted."
--Francis J. Lally, American Roman Catholic Monsignor, Mike Wallace Interview, Fund for the Republic, 1958]
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Puritanical Sex

"When you know the LORD you have no need for masturbation."
--Brice Wellington

"I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."
--Joseph Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League

"Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest."
--Jimmy Swaggart, quoted from http://i.am/not_a_crook

"I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like – and if you have babies, you have babies."
--Randall Terry

"When the temptation to masturbate is strong, yell "Stop!" to those thoughts as loudly as you can in your mind. Then recite a portion of the Bible or sing a hymn."
--Mormon Guide to Self-Control

"Abortion, the worst possible type of murder as it takes a totally innocent human life, is less of a sin than sodomy which totally rejects the creation of human life."
--David Trosch [for more "wisdom" by Trosch, visit www.trosch.org/the/failed_sodomy.html]
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Misc. Lunacy

  "Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse."
  "You do not have the right to be wrong, regardless of what any man-made or demonic charter says."
  "Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God."
  "Do you realize that the only thing that gives democracy existence is sin? The absence of democracy is perfect obedience to god."
  "The best way to insure the earth is never over populated is for sensible and righteous governments to clear all forms of atheism and heresy."
--Robert T. Lee, Society for the Practical Establishment of the Ten Commandments

"Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."
--Star Parker, Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education

"Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed.'
--Ann Coulter

 "Now in 1986, President Reagan thought he could solve the [immigration] problem by granting about 3 million illegal aliens amnesty. The New York Times was in heaven, editorializing back then, quote, 'The new law won't work miracles but it will induce most employers to pay attention, to turn off the magnets, to slow the tide.' Of course, just the opposite happened. But the Times hasn't learned a thing. That's because the newspaper and many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed.
  " According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will. This can only happen if demographics change in America.
  " An open-border policy and the legalization of millions of Hispanic illegal aliens would deeply affect the political landscape in America. That's what The New York Times and many others on the left want. They might get it. And that's the 'Memo.'"
--Bill O'Reilly, May 16, 2006 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor

"It is our hope that seeing and hearing some of the nation's most powerful preachers gathered around a gas station and the United States capital as a backdrop, will remind everyone who is really in charge of our world--GOD." --Wenda Royster, founder of Pray Live, a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week live prayer line, e-worship center, and Internet radio station, commenting on the April 27 event in Washington, D.C. where clergy will pray for lower gas prices [no, that is NOT a typo]

"Our faith has always been in direct conflict with the values of the world.  We are, after all, a society that abides abortion on demand, has killed millions of innocent children, degrades the institution of marriage, and all but treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition.  Seen from this perspective, of course there is a war on Christianity."
--Rep Tom DeLay (R-TX) [Don't sell Christianity short Tom.  It's a first-rate superstition!]

"[I hope] that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars."
--Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, (R-TX), October 23, 2005 on Meet The Press, talking about the Valerie Plame leak investigation

  "[S]omething needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray. And I think it is most important that we make that statement and that it be on the record for history.
  "I very much worry that with the evidence that we have seen that grand juries across America are going to start asking questions about what is obstruction of justice, what is perjury. And I don’t want there to be any lessening of the standard. Because our system of criminal justice depends on people telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is the lynch pin of our criminal justice system and I don’t want it to be faded in any way."
--Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, (R-TX), February 2, 1999, [with a different attitude about the "rule of law" in terms of Clinton's transgressions]

"I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms."
--Rev. Billy Graham, May 1994 For more on this, click here

 "Who really cares what Hollywood thinks?  All these hacks come out there.  Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.  It‘s not a secret, OK?  And I‘m not afraid to say it.  That‘s why they hate this movie.  It‘s about Jesus Christ, and it‘s about truth.  It‘s about the messiah.
  "Hollywood likes anal sex.  They like to see the public square without nativity scenes.  I like families.  I like children.  They like abortions.  I believe in traditional values and restraint.  They believe in libertinism.  We have nothing in common.  But you know what?  The culture war has been ongoing for a long time.  Their side has lost.
  "You have got secular Jews.  You have got embittered ex-Catholics, including a lot of ex-Catholic priests who hate the Catholic Church, wacko Protestants in the same group, and these people are in the margins.  Frankly, Michael Moore represents a cult movie.  Mel Gibson represents the mainstream of America. 
--William Donahue, President of the Catholic League, December 8, 2004 on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, discussing Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" vs. Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"  Full transcript

"If the Bible is right, God created us.  If God did it, it's history and it's also science."
--John Rowand, an Assemblies of God pastor and a newly appointed school board member in Dover, PA where the board wants to require that high school science teachers at least mention the "intelligent design" theory.

"I definitely would prefer to believe that God created me than that I'm 50th cousin to a silverback ape.  What's wrong with wanting our children to hear about all the holes in the theory of evolution?"
--Lark Myers, a gift shop owner in Dover, PA

"[W]e would make the argument, the Supreme Court does not always have the final authority over the interpretation of the Constitution."
--Rep. Robert Aderholt

"Power is in the hands of an unelected few who have retained power through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy."
--George W. Bush, June 15, 2005, commenting on elections in Iran (Where does he hide the huge balls it takes for HIM to make that statement?)

"Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, "Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore," and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, "Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death." And you know, well, I'm not sure."
--Glenn Beck, from the May 17 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program

"It couldn't have been because our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact."
--U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, commenting after the Columbine massacre

  "Let me talk to you about five good things of late ... for which this week I hope you and your family around your Thanksgiving table will praise the Lord. ... No. 5: America has alternative news media and is no longer held hostage by the major print and broadcast media. I remember a day when ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN and the major print media controlled all the news flow to the American people and we found ourselves getting warped and distorted news. I thank God now in the 21st century for talk radio, that three hours a day people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and hundreds of others are telling the truth of what really is going on. I thank God for FOX News Channel. I thank God for the Internet bloggers and the news producers like NewsMax.com, WorldNetDaily.com, even The Drudge Report."
...
  "And we're going to invite PETA [to "Wild Game Night"] as our special guest, P-E-T-A -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. We want you to come, we're going to give you a top seat there, so you can sit there and suffer. This is one of my special groups, another one's the ACLU, another is the NOW -- the National Order of Witches. We've got -- I've got a lot of special groups."
--Jerry Falwell, November 21, 2004 televised sermon

  "Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on it conscience." 
  "There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it."
--Dr. D. James Kennedy, February 1, 2005, addressing his "Defending the Faith" conference in Ft. Lauderdale

"They won't even tell you in the statement what intelligent design entails. They won't mention a creator, a deity, a God. You know why? Because the ACLU then can haul them into court and cost them $100,000 to defend themselves. Fascism, fascism, fascism. Okay? Ah, drive me nuts! Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin. Castro probably is. And so would Mao Zedong."
--Bill O'Reilly, January 19, 2005 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly

"Finally, the ACLU -- we talked about this yesterday and I -- and, you know, I have to pick on the ACLU because they're the most dangerous organization in the United States of America right now. There's by far. There's nobody even close to that. They're, like, second next to Al Qaeda."
--Bill O'Reilly, June 2, 2004 broadcast of The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly

  "[T]he International Red Cross is a joke....  It appears to me the New York Times just hates this country.  They hate red states.  They hate traditional marriage.  They hate our military.  It's just amazing."
  "Listen to what the New York Times reports as prisoner abuse at G'itmo. 'One regular procedure was making uncooperative prisoners strip to their underwear, having them sit in a chair while shackled hand and foot to a bolt in the floor, and forcing them to endure strobe lights and loud rock and rap music played through two close loudspeakers while air-conditioning was turned up to maximum levels.' Folks, that happens every night in New York City at any club you go into, except the underwear. I mean, this is absurd."
--Rush Limbaugh, November 30, 2004 "Int'l Red Cross Hates America"

"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes."
- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, NY Times, 4/3/03, CongressDaily, 3/17/03

"Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist."
- Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), House Majority Whip, during a debate on increasing the minimum wage, Congressional Record, H3706, 04-23-96

"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
- Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Alaska Public Radio, 08-19-96

"They were an endangered species. For many of these Japanese Americans, it wasn't safe for them to be on the street... Some (Japanese Americans) probably were intent on doing harm to us, just as some of these Arab Americans are probably intent on doing harm to us."
- U.S. Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC), who according to the AP "agreed with the World War II policy of confining Japanese -Americans to internment camps." AP, 2/5/03

  "I always see two Jewish communities in America. One of deep intellect and one of shallow, superficial intellect."
  "Liberals are in my estimation just not bright people. They don't think deeply; they don't comprehend; they don't understand. ... They have a narrow educational base, as opposed to the hard scientists."
  "If you were a southern, Anglo, Baptist liberal, I promise you, I would say you are not well-educated and probably not a great deep thinker, because that's what liberals are. I have not been impressed with the intellect of the left since I was a freshman in college."
--House Majority Leader Dick Armey, During a round-table discussion for Katherine Harris

"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."
--Jerry Falwell, on CNN's Crossfire, May 17, 1997 

"We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."
--James Watt (Secretary of the Interior under Reagan)

"I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."
--James Watt, describing his staff to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983

  “This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS....You kick him until he passes out--then beat him over the head with a baseball bat.”
--E-mail sent between two Tom DeLay staffers
  Of course when the congressman is feeling down he has his friends, such as former Texas Ranger and County Sheriff Milton Wright, who said of Tom: “He can kiss my ass.”

"I think there are some species that ought to be killed off to subdue the Earth."
--Former state Rep. Casey Emerson, R-Bozeman, made the comment during a panel discussion focusing on the Endangered Species Act.  He wondered aloud whether "so-called environmentalists" had read the Bible passage stating that people must subdue the Earth. It should be like getting rid of weeds in a wheat field, he said

"Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state."
--Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth R-ID during her 1994 campaign

"The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Also, will they believe what the Media says, considering that its aim is to steal, kill, and destroy?"
--Jimmy Swaggart, The Evangelist, January 1988

"The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our young people. This poisonous rot about creatures not of God's making, societies of 'aliens' without a good Christian among them, and raw sex between unhuman beings with three heads and God alone knows what sort of reproductive apparatus keeps our young people from realizing the true will of God."
--Jerry Falwell, "Can Our Young People Find God in the Pages of Trashy Magazines? No, Of Course Not!" Reader's Digest, Aug. 1985: p142-157

  "From my personal perspective, I think that a prayer life and a country that respects a higher being, our God, is a stronger country. I believe that, and I think the vast majority of the people in Texas and in this country believe that."
  "I happen to think we all pray to the same God. I'll let the theologians split the hairs and do all those kind of things."
  "Why not?  They [the Supreme Court] took it out. They can sure put it [school prayer] back in."
--Texas Gov. Rick Perry commenting after he prayed at an school assembly at Palestine Middle School

"My process has been, frankly, unusually deliberative for my administration."
--George W. Bush, commenting on his stem cell research decision

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
--Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, NPR Morning Edition, June 25, 2001

 "People like Americans United for Separation of Church and state, I think they're kind of an extreme voice.  They seek to sanitize the public square of all religious influence."
  "President Bush respects the constitutional separation.  He is trying to tear down the wall that separates the poor from effective programs."
--Jim Towey, director of the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, November 28, 2002 on NPR's "Marketplace Morning Report"

"The judges need to be intimidated, they need to uphold the Constitution. If they don't behave, we're going to go after them in a big way."
--House Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay, The Washington Post

"When I see a first-class individual who makes $80,000 a year, he's lower middle class. When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a year, that's middle class. When I see anyone above that, that's upper middle class."
--Rep. Fred Heineman (R-NC), explaining that his yearly income of $180,000 leaves him short of middle-class status

"[T]he president wants even more money from the tobacco industry. He announced a new Justice Department lawsuit supposedly to recover the costs of smoking. But the government really saves money because of smoking. Many smokers die before Medicare and Social Security pays them the usual benefits."
--Janet Parshall, FRC Washington Watch Radio Commentary, February 1, 1999

"Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory."
--Rev. Jimmy Swaggart

"Indeed, the time has come for Congress to call into question the very legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s status as sole and final arbiter of what the Constitution means."
--Chuck Colson, "Whose Constitution Is It Anyway?," June 26, 1997

"It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information. It's an unfortunate reality that the issuance of incomplete information and even misinformation by government may sometimes be perceived as necessary to protect vital interests."
--Solicitor General Theodore Olson, arguing before the US Supreme Court, 3/18/2002

"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."
--Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, speaking of doctors who perform abortions, in an address to the U.S. Taxpayers Alliance, 8/08/95

"In my view, the choice for the judge who believes the death penalty to be immoral is resignation rather than simply ignoring duly enacted constitutional laws and sabotaging the death penalty."
--Justice Antonin Scalia, in Chicago on Jan. 25, event by Pew Forum.

"Any Catholic jurist (with such concerns) ... would have to resign."  "You couldn't function as a judge."
---- Justice Antonin Scalia, Georgetown University, Feb 3, 2002

"Exporting MTV would only serve to confirm Islam's worst fears and most accurate suspicions about the West--that we are a people who exploit women in crueler and more effective ways than the Taliban ever considered.  We turn them into sex objects.  What we do to young people in general is no better.  While the Islamists program their young people into becoming suicide bombers, MTV programs our children into self-destructive, sexual time bombs."
--Joseph Farah, editor, WorldNetDaily.com

"We just had Stephen Breyer saying, oh, yeah, totally appropriate, we must import what they're doing around the world in other democracies, it will help buttress their attempt to establish the rule of law, and we might learn something, too. Well, here's something I'd like to import. I'd like to import the ability that the Brits are doing to export and deport a bunch of hate-rhetoric filled mullahs and imams that are stoking anti-American sentiment. Wouldn't it be great if anybody who speaks out against this country, to kick them out of the country? Anybody that threatens this country, kick 'em out. We'd get rid of Michael Moore, we'd get rid of half the Democratic Party if we would just import that law. That would be fabulous. The Supreme Court ought to look into this. Absolutely brilliant idea out there."
--Rush Limbaugh, August 11, 2005

"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I’m proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
--Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Alaska Public Radio, August 19, 1996

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."
--Ann Coulter, August 26, 2002

  “You know when I see somebody burning the flag, I’m a Baptist preacher I’m not a Mennonite, I feel it’s my obligation to whip him. In the name of the Lord of course. I feel it’s my obligation to whip him, and if I can’t do it then I look up some of my athletes to help me.
  "But, as long as at 72 I can handle most of the jobs I do it myself, and I don’t think it’s un-spiritual. When I, when I, when I hear somebody talking about our military and ridiculing and saying terrible things about our President, I’m thinking you know just a little bit of that and I believe the Lord would forgive me if I popped him.”
--Jerry Falwell, September 25, 2005 in a sermon to his Thomas Road Baptist Church congregation

"Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
--Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tx), on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC instructor

"I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia - Full Story  [Guess not everything they say is lunacy.]

"I may be an idiot, but I'm not a pedophile."
--Rev. Jerry Falwell, CNN's Crossfire, June 12, 2002  [Well, we KNOW the first part is correct.]
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Terrorism

HANNITY: How naive is this notion — the New York Times editorial today — that the idea that we can talk to Syria, talk to these terrorist regimes. Can you talk to Ahmadinejad? Can you talk to an Assad? Can you talk to Usama bin Laden? Can you get anywhere? Is that an…
HUNT: I think we can talk to them when we line them up and kill them. I don’t think — the only reason to talk to some of these guys is to just do that. However, we’re not going to wipe out, as we talked offline, the entire country, but we have to directly talk to these guys to find out what they want. If they’re not going to cooperate, yes, they have to go.
HANNITY: Regime change.
HUNT: Absolutely, 100 percent.
--Col. David Hunt, military analyst for Fox News, interviewed on Hannity & Colmes, August 10, 2006
[Somebody remind them how well regime change worked in Iraq.]

"If George Bush loses the election, Osama bin Laden wins the election."
--Rep. Tom Cole, (R)-Ok.

"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
--Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen quoting George W. Bush when they met in Aqaba; reported in The Haaretz Reporter by Arnon Regular

"This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?"
--Rush Limbaugh, May 4, 2004 talking about the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
--Barbara Bush, said on 'Good Morning America' the day before the Iraq war started, New York Times, 01-13-03

"But you've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I'm for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord."
--Jerry Falwell, on "CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer"

"I think [the war] is going well.  CNN doesn't always get it right, but it goes pretty well if you watch it on FOX."
--Jerry Falwell, Guest-hosting CNN's Crossfire, December 2, 2004

  "I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning."
[...]
  "Seriously, I think the rest of the countries in the Middle East, after Afghanistan and Iraq, they're pretty much George Bush's bitch."
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  "Well, he [Bill Clinton] was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten."
--Ann Coulter, January 10, 2005 interview with George Gurley, a columnist for the New York Observer

"This is a religious war, not against Islam but for Christianity, for a Christian nation. When this nation was founded, there was nothing like it. Our founders said there is a God and we are all equal before God. The ideal of equality and tolerance is like nothing that has ever existed in the world before. That, too, is a Christian value. The concept of equality, especially when it comes to gender equality, was not invented by Gloria Steinem. It was invented by Jesus Christ. As long as people look long enough, they will always come to Christianity."
--Ann Coulter, speech at Northwestern University, 2003

"Frankly, I'm also fed up -- not fed up. I retract that. I'm weary, ladies and gentlemen, of even having to express sympathy. 'Oh, she lost her son!' Yes, yes, yes, but (sigh) we all lose things."
--Rush Limbaugh commenting on Cindy Sheehan

"I mean, Cindy Sheehan is just Bill Burkett. Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There's nothing about it t