“How did those who drafted the platform make an error that hands back to the Republicans — if only for a nanosecond — the stick they had used to beat the Democrats senseless for a good 30 years?”
Jacques Berlinerblau
The Georgetown University scholar was writing in The Washington Post about Democrats’ removal of the word “God” from their party platform. (RNS)
“I want people to vote because they’re pro-health-care, not because they’re anti-Mormon.”
Howard-John Wesley
The pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., was quoted in a Washington Post article about some black pastors considering raising GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith as a political issue. (RNS)
“I care far less as to where Mitt Romney takes his family to church than I do about where he takes this country.”
Mike Huckabee
The former Arkansas governor, a favorite of Evangelicals and social conservatives, addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. (RNS)