“We have stories about child molesters, murders and all kinds of vicious, barbaric acts of evil committed by heinous criminals on our front page, and yet we never receive a call from anyone saying ‘I don’t need my children reading this.’ Never. Ever. However, a story about two women exchanging marriage vows and we get swamped with people worried about their children.”
Jim Cegielski
The owner of the Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call was responding to local criticism after his newspaper covered a lesbian wedding. (RNS)
“They do not want toleration. They do not want live and let live. They want to force everyone to affirm their lifestyle as perfectly healthy and normal, or they will ostracize us and marginalize us to the level of the Ku Klux Klan.”
Richard Land
The Southern Baptist Convention’s moral concerns spokesperson was describing on a radio program what he called the “homosexual agenda.” (ABP)
“… [I]f those conservatives who advocate for such a shift in public education get their way … it will likely be another case of getting what they want and then not wanting what they get. By advocating for teaching the Bible in schools, Christians are unwittingly lobbying for something they could never accept. They think they want it, but they really don’t.”
Jonathan Merritt
The evangelical leader was describing on his blog why conservative Christians should oppose teaching in public schools (RNS)