“I’m not going to kick gays, because I’m a sinner. How can I differentiate sin? … This crowd uses gays as the enemy. It’s hard to distinguish between fear of the homosexual political agenda and fear of homosexuality.”
George W. Bush, after reading Christian Coalition material, in secretly recorded conversations with Doug Wead. Wead served as President George H.W. Bush’s liaison to evangelical and pro-family groups.
“This court has no hesitation in ruling that a pre-embryo is a ‘human being’ … whether or not it is implanted in its mother’s womb.”
Illinois Judge Jeffrey Lawrence Jr., in refusing to throw out a wrongful-death suit against a fertility clinic in Chicago.
“This is our Kristallnacht.”
A Christian resident of Maghar, Israel (near Nazareth), after Druze neighbors rioted and caused $35 million in damage to 180 cars and 125 stores and homes. The riot was sparked by a false rumor that a Christian teen had posted pornographic images of a Druze woman.
“They came up behind and shot her in the back with no warning. To me, that’s murder.”
John Luttig, father of American Veronica Bowers, who was mistakenly shot to death when the Peruvian Air Force fired on the missionary plane she was flying in during an antidrug program in 2001. In February, the U.S. Justice Department said it was dropping an investigation of the shooting, and that the CIA employees who approved the shooting, now in senior positions, would not be charged.
Sources: The New York Times, American Medical Association, Haaretz, Associated Press.
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