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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

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Gay, Two, Issues

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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

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Support, Generations, Righteousness

"Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

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America, People, Might

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If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

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Leadership, Real, Believe

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There is a feminine side of God. I always knew this … It is this feminine side of God I find in Jesus that makes me want to sing duets with Him … Not only do I love the feminine is Jesus, but the more I know Jesus, the more I realize that Jesus loves the feminine in me. Until I accept the feminine in my humanness, there will be a part of me that cannot receive the Lord’s love. … There is that feminine side of me that must be recovered and strengthened if I am to be like Christ … And until I feel the feminine in Jesus, there is a part of Him which I cannot identify.

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Jesus, Duets, Want

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Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

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White, America, House

"The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

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Running, Religious, Government

"Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

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Believe, Hard Times, Twenties

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That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

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Religious, Europe, Cities

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I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.

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Christian, Believe, Hard Times

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Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

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Jesus, Issues, Faithful

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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

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Way, Election, American Elections

"Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

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Open Minded, Educator, Explanation

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Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

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Institutions, States, Should

Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.68, Baker Books

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Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

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Lying, Way, Internet

"Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

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Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

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University Professors, Ministers, Professors

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We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another. And to speak to each other with a sense that even if people don't convert, they are God's people, God loves them, and we do not make the judgment of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. I think that what we all have to do is leave judgment up to God. The Muslim community is very evangelistic, however what Muslims will not do is condemn Jews and Christians to Hell if in fact they do not accept Islam.

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Christian, Giving Up, Thinking

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One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.

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Jesus, Party, Married

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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

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Self, Development, Needs

"Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

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Believe, Views, Scripture

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I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

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Advice, President, Bills

"The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

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Christian, Prayer, Couple

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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

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Government, White, House

"Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

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World, Care, Being Human

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