Political Issues:

"'I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating." (Harvey Cox. Harvard University professor. Ibid. p. 72)

"Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children,should be seen and not heard…Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay." (Rep. Tom Delay of Texas, Congressional Record, July 29, 1993. H5459)

"In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them." (p. 3. The Culture of Disbelief. Stephen L. Carter. 1993.)

"The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy." (Henry Hyde)

The enemies of God won't tolerate Christian cultural and political action. There simply isn't enough room in their pluralism for faithful followers of the Lord Jesus Christ." (p. 119. Rebuilding the Walls. Peter Waldron. 1987.)

"We will subject Orthodox Jews and Christians to the most sustained hatred and vilification in recent memory…You have neither the faith nor the strength to fight us, so you might as well surrender now." (Gay activist Steve Warren writing in The Advocate. 1987.)

"As religious apartheid has become more commonplace, the systematic attack on and prohibition of all religious expression in America's public places has become the rule rather than the exception." (p. 34. Whitehead. Ibid.)

"Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!" (p. 12. Who's Afraid of the Religious Right? Don Feder. 1996.)

"It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?…Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions – including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it." (Don Feder. Ibid.)

"Public governmental opposition to Christians is growing." (Kevin Swanson. The Second Mayflower. Lafayette, LA. 1997.p. 58)

Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government…the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion." (Senator Jesse Helms)

Why is it that the Rev. Jesse Jackson can quote the Bible in support of his pet causes, but conservative ministers and lay people must argue purely on secular grounds for their social and political agenda?…It seems that mixing religion and politics is acceptable as long as the road turns to the left." (Gary DeMar. Ibid. p. 179)

"What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics." (Michael Kinsley, co-host CNN. Crossfire. July 1994.)

"The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things." (Chris Murray. Army Times. Jan. 17, 1994. P. 12)

"President James A. Garfield, himself a Christian minister…" (David Barton. Ibid. p. 348)

"The Church must take right grounds in regards to politics…the time has come for Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them." (Evangelist Charles Finney. 1792-1875.)

"Some legislators may feel that they cannot voice whatever religious beliefs from the grounds for their political positions, lest they poison the relevant legislation. Constitutional doctrine should not be permitted to generate such a religious chill." (Tribe. American Constitutional Law. Pp. 1211-1212.)

"Legislators with a deeply felt, particularistic faith are told that they has best check their religious beliefs in with the legislature's sergeant-at-arms when they enter the legislative chambers." (Stephen Monsma. Positive Neutrality. p. 48)

"America was born a Christian nation for the purpose of exemplifying to the nations of the world the principles of righteousness found in the Word of God." (President Woodrow Wilson. Quoted by Hatch, Noll, & Woodbridge. The Gospel in America . 1979.)

Congressman Henry Hyde was followed into a Catholic church in the 1970s and subjected to ACLU surveillance, all because the Union wanted to demonstrate that it was his religious beliefs that undergirded his antiabortion position; a judge threw the suit out, finding no breach of church-state lines." (William Donohoe. Twilight of Liberty. p. 28)

"Liked it or not, America is drifting away from its religious roots and Christian heritage. And like it or not, agnostic or atheistic men and women who are insensitive to the moral beliefs of many Americans rule our government and enact and enforce our laws." (J. Warren Kniskern. Courting Disaster . p. 89)

"It is clearly appropriate to speak of the influence of Christian principles on the Declaration of Independence…We do not find the nonbiblical or antibiblical influences of rationalism, deism, and humanism as so many suggest." (Gary Amos. The Christian and American Law. p. 74)

"Those of us who venerate freedom, be we Jewish or Christian, be we religious or secularized, have no option but to pray for the health of Christianity in America. No other group possess both the faith and the numbers sufficient to hold back the ever-encroaching, sometimes sinister, power of the state." (Rabbi Lapin. Ameica's Real War. p. 246)

"The most serious problems are the realities of expanding and regulatory state and federal governments that squeeze religion out on a piecemeal basis, regulation by regulation, justified by 'public policy' and 'compelling state interest' until the distinctives of the church and its witness are destroyed." (Land & Moore. Citizen Christian. p. 35)

"The most serious problems are the realities of expanding and regulatory state and federal governments that squeeze religion out on a piecemeal basis, regulation by regulation, justified by 'public policy' and 'compelling state interest' until the distinctives of the church and its witness are destroyed." (Land & Moore. Citizen Christian. p. 35)

"The evangelical impact on American politics stirs up daily wrath in the press and from politicians, because it reintroduces into politics a dimension which politicians largely have sought to avoid: moral confrontation. The hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics." (Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony. Chalcedon Report. Dec. 1981.)